Beneath the skin, where shadows creep,Where silent specters nightly weep,There courses through, with muffled breath,A harbinger of quiet death. Oh! How it winds, how it ascends,Through veins and arteries, it bends—Invisible, it takes its hold,More treacherous than tales of old. No cawing raven warns the door,No tempest howls upon the […]
There’s a quiet in my bonesthat I don’t recognize.A weight beneath my skinpulls me into a stillness I can’t fight. Breath—once a thing I never thought about,now rattles like wind in empty rooms.Each inhale feels like it’s borrowedfrom some stranger’s lungs. My hands don’t answer like they used to,fingers thick […]
Ever-Present God, I come before You today, seeking Your strength and guidance. You have created me in Your image, and I know that I am fearfully and wonderfully made by Your hands. In moments when the world feels heavy and the voices of rejection are loud, remind me that it […]
In a world where whispers of faith should echo like thunder,We find ourselves lost in a labyrinth of our own making,Threads of belief tangled in the loom of our hearts,Where once there was tapestry, now only tatters.The cross, once a symbol of unity,Now, like a fractured spine,Bent under the weight […]
In the beginning,There was love.Not the kind that fits into the neat cornersOf man-made boxes,But the wild, sprawling expanseOf a divine sparkThat knows no limit, no end. I stand here,A pastor in a pulpit,A husband in a home,A queer soul in a bodyThat’s never fit the mold—Yet here I am, […]
In a world that draws its lines,I stand at the crossroads.Where faith meets love,Where I meet myself,Queer and Christian,Not a contradiction, but a harmony,Not a struggle, but a truth. They say the path is narrow.But I walk it wide.With the light of the Gospel in my heart,And the colors of […]
In the hum of the city, in the pulse of the streets,We chase the “as soon as” with hurried feet.“As soon as I finish,” “as soon as I start,”The whispering echoes fill every heart. We sprint through our days, always looking ahead,Our minds on the future, our souls underfed.“As soon […]
