Salvation from the Flames


Soldiers marching with rifles at the ready.
All seemed lost in a city burning down.
A city ablaze as the smoke rose to the skies.
Death was as near as the heat of the city.

It was a night that fire brought pure fear.
Pleading with God to not let me die in the flames.
Always been afraid of the flames of the night.
Pleading with God to not let me die in the flames.

A night when D.C. was ablaze God saved me.

Light of Grace
Inspired by “It Could Have Been Me” The Five Blind Boys of Mississippi

Daylight coming through the stained glass windows.
Kneeling at the altar alone day after day for years.
Friends lost to drugs, jail, and gunshots wounds.
My heart ached month after month for years.

God was to save me on the night death called me.
It was not me dying on that floor after using cocaine
It was not me dying alone in the red light-district.

Touched by Innocence
For Mahjabeen

The evening skies in Vermont on a cool night.
Watching stars upon stars flashed before my eyes.
Amazed that such beauty existed in the world.
Baptized on a night with a shooting star.

Heaven once a distance memory opened.
Angels rejoiced at the return of a brother.
Sins were forgotten and washed away.
A lonely heart was filled with harmony.

Salvation had been given to a sinner.