Cast adrift in an unknown sea. By my pride. Alone Missing you,

It was in those early days when everything seemed technicolor there was that explosion only inward then nothing

I read such woeful words penned by a fallen brother; his message cut me deeply. He prayed to all that’s holy that he might cry again.

There are no pictures on these wal… no mountain lakes nor sailing ship… Not long ago there were no walls Life was lived outside your window… I’d tried to live within four wall…

I am here now. I have removed my outer garments, placed my trust within your circle… I have come because you promised. You told me you would be here

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

I am awash with tears of mourning for what I thought was dead and go… as though a flood of holy water has broken through the stony dam I contrived to spare this brittle…

I see no reason now to disguise this naked heart and soul of mine. You can hide there

Way up there on that hill of yours; that most hard-won ivory tower. Hiding there behind your perfect guise

I was seven years old. I approached the priest in earnest… “I want to take the lord Jesus in… He instructed me to kneel and pray… A week passed.

I was surrounded by many desperate, troubled people. There was much drinking, drugging, and violence. Women were being bought and sold,

Almost silent, A numbing hum. It is a cold cloudless night. A brilliant bone-white moon hovers amidst stars upon stars upon stars…