These verses follow no rules of scheme, rhyme or meter because I didn't want to be restricted in telling a story of love in its highest form. I dedicate this to my nephew David, my sister Kathy, my Parents who now reside in Heaven and my precious husband
because they could no longer
beat alone
Two lives died
when a knot was tied
that bound them together
They were born again
beneath the skin
of eternal devotion
As vast as the ocean
Two in one person
One person with two souls
vulnerable to holes
from life's knives
That would pierce the skin
with an aim to drain
devotion and love
But love upon love grows
as time on them bestows
knowing
Knowing flaws
and what makes them weak
gives them pause
And so they seek
The Love Creator
to eliminate
the Soul Invader
Strength is needed
and is given
His Blood is pleaded
and evil driven, away
Taking joy from being.
Sustaining life with love.
Each breath has meaning
poured out from above
Challenges are met
Battles are won
Deep roots are set
Love grows on
Together they stand.
Two in one,
hand in hand
Time turns to become a foe.
One must stay and one must go.
But can a heart be split
without killing the whole of it?
And the skin that grew
over the one who had been two,
the cover of devotion, vast as the ocean,
will that shield be peeled?
Oh the cruel truth,
a jagged heart, ripped apart
as from a lion's tooth,
Bleeds upon the lonely one.
Body raw, shield now gone
half a heart, half a beat
Two-in-one now incomplete.
Tears and fears strike in pain
upon the remnant heart in vain,
though the suffering pours like rain
Partner Death will remain.
Beyond the cloud of years to come
after the time of living numb
a strange aliveness will awake
to see a new sunrise break
And inside a crippled life
where tomorrows were not planned
half a heart now beats whole
sewn to God's by His own hand
Poetry by Phyllis J. Rhodes
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Written on 2009-03-21 at 16:48
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ONE Plus Two Makes One
Two hearts became onebecause they could no longer
beat alone
Two lives died
when a knot was tied
that bound them together
They were born again
beneath the skin
of eternal devotion
As vast as the ocean
Two in one person
One person with two souls
vulnerable to holes
from life's knives
That would pierce the skin
with an aim to drain
devotion and love
But love upon love grows
as time on them bestows
knowing
Knowing flaws
and what makes them weak
gives them pause
And so they seek
The Love Creator
to eliminate
the Soul Invader
Strength is needed
and is given
His Blood is pleaded
and evil driven, away
Taking joy from being.
Sustaining life with love.
Each breath has meaning
poured out from above
Challenges are met
Battles are won
Deep roots are set
Love grows on
Together they stand.
Two in one,
hand in hand
Time turns to become a foe.
One must stay and one must go.
But can a heart be split
without killing the whole of it?
And the skin that grew
over the one who had been two,
the cover of devotion, vast as the ocean,
will that shield be peeled?
Oh the cruel truth,
a jagged heart, ripped apart
as from a lion's tooth,
Bleeds upon the lonely one.
Body raw, shield now gone
half a heart, half a beat
Two-in-one now incomplete.
Tears and fears strike in pain
upon the remnant heart in vain,
though the suffering pours like rain
Partner Death will remain.
Beyond the cloud of years to come
after the time of living numb
a strange aliveness will awake
to see a new sunrise break
And inside a crippled life
where tomorrows were not planned
half a heart now beats whole
sewn to God's by His own hand
Poetry by Phyllis J. Rhodes
Read 687 times
Written on 2009-03-21 at 16:48
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