"Destined Minds"

EYE

delicate and precise
the organ of sight
dark apeture that
determines the light

the window that transmits this
moveable globe of vision
and focuses the worlds view

a pair of hollow structures
that rest in bony sockets
within the orbit of the skull

the faculty that makes
aesthetic judgments
under watchful supervision

so calm the centre
amidst lifes hurricane
and so they ran into the
heart of the struggle

where upon they now
find themselves in the
eye of the storm

and the eye of the needle
forbids me trespass
and keeps me on this
side of lifes fence

and my minds eye
takes in my surrounds
and evaluate the quality

this lens that penetrates
my memory stores the pictures
that I now see

Maree Long
(c) Maree Long 2008

SUMMER'S APARTMENT

White painted walls
on either side their lies
a blank canvas that stares at me

white cold steel
vertical rails that mar
my vision

and what would be a beautiful
horizon is interupted and
stripped of its moments beauty

white sands too hot
to walk on forbid
that I should trespass

white blinding heat
pours down on me
melting my resolve

so hot the day
that makes all things
unpleasnt

so humid the air
it presses in
confinement it strangles me

and time befreinds me not
always choosing how painfully
slow it passes

all that once thought secure
such relationships no longer
my hearts solace

and the demon voice well known
for its ready made lies
whispers to my mind

"run and jump, think not
let thy end be wift
and I will hold your hand
and all your burdens will lift"

then white the truth reveals
that gives my heart the light
dispels the present darkness

that burned within me
and seared my eyes of truth
but my heart it feels

and knows that I am held
in the Father's hand
and protected there with him

for white the tiny white lies
did tell as they stripped away
memories spell

and back to where you came from
the white droplets of deceit
were sent

Maree Long
(c) Maree Long 2008

FOOTNOTE: Please note the following warning - I personally had been using this sleeping aid - only a few days at a time - with a break in between to avoid any addictiveness - what I got was violent mood rage swings, loss of memory, and a voice proding me to suicide to run and jump off a balcony....I thought it was a spirittual attackk, whilst I still think I have been suffering a spirutal attack no doubt in my mind now....however these little demons are a force unto themselves and will be taking all remainging stock back to the doctors with an interesting report....

http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/More-warnings-for-sleeping-pill-Stilnox/2007/11/28/1196036972352.html


Mare

STANDING STILL

Dedicated to Scriptures perception of time - Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

Day light hours roll and
merge into each other
as time stands seemingly still

Fleeting are thy minutes grace
that holds emotions
of life's sweet bitter pill

Inquistive to see thy next phase
come into it's play
wanting pains motion reversed

Let mine heart get through this next hour
and grieve shortly this
twisted fate perversed

Fatigue it seeps into one's mind
clouding the centred space
relentless in it's pursuit

Dancing on the edge of time
confusion lifts and
fleeing fears refute

The Lord the keeper and
maker of all time
sets in motion the intervals

That holds the truth and
plan for thee as it stays it course
untimely fashion broken spirit repels

Fleeting fleeting the second hand
and chiming with precision
marking this thy passing moment

waste not the gift of time
given but once to thee
and letting go lament

Maree Long
(c) Maree Long 2007