"Destined Minds"

HATE

Hate will make you bitter
from the inside, out

Hate will make you whither
for all the lies you spout

Hate that once your friend
will bring you to your knees bitter end

Hate will become your enemy
for all of your complacancy

so quickly remove the garment
let your heart breath the light
remove the darken sackcloth
and let the evil flee from sight

HATE, HATE, HATE,
I hate, wicked tongue of evil state

HATE, HATE, HATE
I hate, you with a vegence

that my wickered heart remorses not
and my hate I cannot relent for I despise
all you stand for - for I am nothing like you.

My wickered tongue will not relent
till my appetite is satieted in your demise
and though I spout as truth, fools will believe my lies

fool the wicked woman of hate
did not see the end of coming
and her one true friend of truth
did not raise a finger to yield
loves saving grace

and so the friend standing at Heavens door
began to sob the silent sobs
they soon began a streaming roar
as this frightened soul realises
that hate was not a friend

Maree Long
(c)Maree Long 2008

FOOTNOTE: This piece was written after witnessing
a severe spate of trolling and harrassing - I have never
witnessed such unrepentant hate so rampant as others
joined the bandwagon. And not one of her friends
tried to reign her in whilst yet others gladly joined in.

A true friend will not let their friend hate so
turning a blind eye but with compassion and conviction
let the friend know they have gone astray...

HEAVENS DOOR

molded the rugs that were
spun into angels wings
the dust of hidden past
that clouds the mind

as those wings carry
us to futures present
higher and higher
lifted up were I carried

away beyond the heavens
rainbows that let me not
be just blown in the wind
or mere breath of strange

lands I care for nought
for there I tarried far
too long where moldy angst
tried to cling to my form

and let the wings carry me
to the oceans shore and drink
from the drops of thy gift
the wealth of life before

...................I enter heavens door

Maree Long
(c) Maree Long 2008

FOOTNOTE: Inspired by a conversation with ellindata once again

DEATH IT COMES

appointed unto man but to die the once
that calls upon the breathing the brevity of life

and swift the justice laid fair upon the soul
for the choices made that now no longer told

for we are but fleeting in the time wer'e given
and if we have been purposeful eternity found in heaven

as life it really begins there, to know the Saviour's face
of what we had encompasses beneath the blood shed grace

and sings the joy eternally, thankful for the gift
softly at first then sweetly the voices lift

death it comes, death it must come as grim as it might appear
and all the chains that death surrounds forever dissappear

for now I no longer cry or shed the human tear
nor feel the pain and sorrow that many often fear

so though the deathly shadow lingers over your heart
know that I was called back home from whence all life does start

and pluck from the bush grape the lush and fleshly juice
for merely the pleasure of it, the garden extends in rows
left behind is the impression of India's damask rose
though I will never kiss thee tenderly under honeysuckle mistletoe

as mine fine fragrance harvested and collected for heaven's call
and when you see the heart leaf sida growing wild by the roadside tall,

so luxurient in December, know that laughter is the best medicine
and now I will be ornamental like the candle on the tree
as I walk, laugh and run through fields of angelwing jasmine
in the presence of my God that be


Maree Long
(c) Maree Long 2007

OASIS - I claim you as sanctuary..

A million ton of sand
with only one ally
that sweeps upon the land

erosion burrows deep
beneath your table
where irragated tears
caress and sleep

Pourous grains allow
heaven to reach down deep

and there sprouts the drifted
seed amidst the great Kharga

An island in an ocean
of searing heat that blazes
beneath the sweltering sun

Desert garden watered springs
from earths resting place
provides the refuge soght

Maree Long
(c)Maree Long 2007

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HEAVENLY BODIES

Emitted light from
distant past
visible to the naked eye

So why then can man
not see beyond your hot
body of glowing gas

and know that
the spoken word dispels all
man's questions of confusion

the answer to energy,
brightness...and
nuclear fusion

Sun star giver of light
Sun star giver of life

Luminious ball of plasma
radiates your beauty
under nights sky

Light that guides safely
giving man passage
upon watered sea

Who is your time keeper
who holds your heavenly
body fixed in time and space

Son creator of light
Son the giver of new life

Fields of color the
roof built upon our brow
looks commandinGly down

A garden of beams
illumine softly for
midnight's Milky Way.

And heralds a new dawn
that marks all time
and space

As the Father, smiles
upon man descending
heaven's light

That greets and calls
the heart of one
and through his son

gives grace...


Maree Long
(c) Maree Long 2007