It’s better to be free
Knowing bondage
Than to be bound
And not know
You’re bound
In a tree, in a thing
In a thought
In a mistaken you
From the you from
Before
You know the
Past
But that’s how you
Think
What you know is something
Kind of
Strange
I mean you’re bound
Don’t you wanna know
What it’s like to be
Free?
Indeed
Mountains are for babies
Because they cradle
Like a mother’s arms
And just for a moment
You’re fearless like a baby
Growing to know no fear
Safe from before
But even then
When you’re grown
They still promise
A sunrise and sunset
And a start
And finish to home
But we know fearless
Is not safe
The mountain then
Is more than a cradle
It’s a keeper
And it can only keep so far
The mountain
It’s too exotic
Like a mother’s arms
It will only cradle so long
Keeping without time
Yet
It loves its babies
Kept safe inside
For Scarlett, my sissy ❤
I once heard a story
About a widow
Whose husband
Was still alive
He hadn’t died
Like dead
But his mind
Stopped
Thinking
And he was paralyzed
Quiet
Numb
The widow
Wasn’t having none
Of her husband’s mind
Gone dead and quiet
She started asking
Questions
And he started to respond
Awakened
Something
In
Him
The more she asked
The more he answered
The more she asked
The more he transformed
The more she asked
The more he awakened
The more she asked
The more he became
The more she asked
The more he loved
The widow never widowed
And the husband became
Alive
His heart reawakened
His mind transformed
His soul forever changed
He never stayed the same
God searches the deep things of the heart. He is asking us, “Will we die and surrender everything to follow Him?” Sometimes we answer but we don’t transform or fully wake up. He continues asking and searching us for complete surrender. The more we respond, the more we start to see our lives transformed. Our desires turn to Him instead of to the dead things of our will, our understanding, and our strength. His love makes us alive and we are never the same.
“I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” -Galatians 2:20
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