The Truth of Love

They say,Love is love.But let’s be real—Love is the ocean,Not the wave you see crashing on the shore.It’s not a label we wear,Not a box we check.It’s a spectrum,A wildfire,An ancient story retold in a thousand new voices. They say,Love is simple.But we know it’s anything but.Love is messy, tangled, […]

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The Veil of the Veins

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 […]

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Fading

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 […]

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Spoken Word: “Fragments of Faith”

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 […]

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Boundless and Holy; a poem about love.

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, […]

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