I met a man who told me that he’s looking for the way he might become more free, less encumbered in his life. Poor me, poor me, poor me;

I am seven years old. My brother is ten. The beating was brutal. My brother is recovering conscious… I believed he was dead.

I stole myself away from thee and me, for love of sweet Mary Jane.

Time wears away at me, like water on a stone, oh, so slowly, but inevitably, drop by drop,

My garments have been stripped awa… along with any hope of tender merc… These feet made bare and sorely bl… It’s time again to bear your earth… Still it seems you know not what y…

These words I cry do not come easily; as if they echo from the cold stone depths of a long forgotten tomb.

I hold truth as the highest princi… I am a liar. I value honesty over all else. I am a thief. I expect integrity from you.

Hello, can you see me here? Please, might you stop awhile. I am the one you pass by daily as you hurry homeward bound. I am that one who’s least of us.

God has spoken. I have been listening, the message is clear. The psalm itself is silent, if the psalmist’s voice falls stil…

A sudden gust of bitter wind from somewhere hot and foul, whooped and howled throughout the scattered waste and scrabble down that God-forsaken alley.