if i could i'd hold you

and keep holding you

holding you

cause i'm damn scared

and need some holding too

and i would drop large tears

to drown hatred in the land

and water flowers somewhere

heartily in a heart somewhere

yours and mine

and anyone who'd be ground

for some new spree

for crazies rule the world

and they curse the ground

dropping bombs to contain a bomb

produce terrors

to contain a terror

while ev'ry word they speak

cause dictionaries to flee

for truth has found no home

even there

cause like lies told cent'ries over time

this time's not different from the past;

slippery words pass through filth

placed upon tables as milk 

stinking in each drink

stop me from walking to their pad

remind me again and again

what's human

what's Christian

ways to forgive

and own my failures

while nurturing my weakened faith

let me share slivers of love

when slivers are all i have

hold me

that i may hold you

for what do we have to give

but hugs to each other

for this is a time of madness

in the grip of the crazies

but we will live

though death falls about us

and madness seems to reign

cause God's full of laughter

*Thoughts of Theodore L. Prescott:

-So much striving, but at the end of the day, we are still, as Walker Percy wisely observed, struck with ourselves - and I might add, stuck with our particular gifts, and the weight of history.

-It seems that we live by moving, yet we know that not all movement amounts to living.  So we want to engage in purposeful movement, movement that really gets us somewhere.  But there are problems built into the idea of getting somewhere, both in art and faith. It is very difficult to know where it is we want to go, or how it is that we get there.

-...our faith tells us that all ends are proximate, and even death - that seeming fearsome finality - is another passage in the borderlands.

-Perhaps hell is an unending futile movement in the same place, and heaven is finding peace and rest as we move toward and in Him who was, and is, and is to come.