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Continue reading →: I wanted to love you
(A recent prayer. Makati City, Philippines) a lifetime ago and a lifetime away i knew what i wanted and wanted to say i wanted to love you and trust and obey a life time ago and a lifetime away a lifetime away and a lifetime ago i knew what i…
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Continue reading →: Son she moves
(“Son she moves like she knows how to please” was written years ago. The rest was written in Cuba to a guy about to lose the girl he was too blind to see.) son she moves like she’s ready to love son she moves like a beautiful dove son she…
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Continue reading →: So afraid
Written in Cuba in 2005. i’m so afraid i’ll never change afraid my heart won’t rearrange afraid my mind won’t be renewed afraid my life won’t live in you i’m so afraid i’ll never live afraid you will not still forgive afraid you will not hear my screams afraid i…
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Continue reading →: Now can I praise you (Cuba, 2005)
how can i praise you with these lips that lie and how can i love you with this hearts that’s broken how can i praise you with this tongue that’s tied and how can i love you with these sins unspoken how can i seek you with these eyes so…
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Continue reading →: These sins
these sins i thought i left behind are the sins i can not help but find these sins that will not disappear are the sins that cripple me with fear these sins i thought i left behind are the sins that separate my kind the sins that will not go…
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Continue reading →: Confession is so easy (unfinished)
(Started sometime in 2005 and completed in Makati City, Philippines in 2006.) confession is so easy but it’s so hard to repent of every sin and every thorn and pound of flesh i’ve spent confession is so easy but it’s so hard to redeem every time and every crime and…
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Continue reading →: Communion and acrobatics
(I’ve heard a lot of people serve Communion. Most try to tie it back to a sermon they just heard, and their unpreparedness shows. This isn’t my “I could do it better” thing; this is simply what I would say if I served Communion.) I’d join the movement if there…
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Continue reading →: What Peter Murphy and She Wants Revenge taught me about community
We are made for community. It’s true you know. We are made for community. Here’s the rub, community is not always easy to find. I saw Peter Murphy and She Wants Revenge in concert. It was my first time to see both. And it was amazing. I cannot say for…
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Continue reading →: Still Hidden in Her
I want to see the starry nightsNow hidden by the city lights.And I want to see my lover’s shape still hidden in her flair. I want to see the morning sunbefore the day has yet begun.And I want to see my lover’s nape still hidden in her hair. I want…
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I’m Simon. Saint Depraved.
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