From Your Valentine

A letter sent from a prison cell

Where even hope darkness quells

Such a bright, divine light, this love

As swift and sweet as any dove

Emperors, dictators and warlords fall

While Love, that universal call

Burns on, despite brutality and fear

And we remember every year

Not the hatred

Nor the pain

Not the tyrant

But the name

Signed and sealed, the heart's final line

With love, from your Valentine

Unconditional Love

Bless everything or bless nothing.

Living Prayer

We are given a life

The best gift we will be given

And with it the gift of love and hope

A living prayer

Let go of despair

Let go of hatred

Let go of violence

Unwrap your heart from fear

And embrace life

A living prayer

Inside The Shell

In opalescent light I sit inside

A wall around me of my own making

If I put my ear to the shell

I hear an ocean outside

A strange current on the surface

Washing over words and dreams

Photo flotsam, memory jettison

Passing ephemera of a life

Pearly surface reflecting

All superficiality spiraling away

Here, in this quiet amphitheatre

I am unshackled

From the tides of pandemonium

Quietly sustained

Within the cathedral shapes

Inside the shell

Focus words for meditation and contemplation

Integrity ~ to uphold moral and ethical standards, to remain true and complete in character.

Indomitable ~ patience, spirit, love.

Immerse ~ fully involve your inner self with indomitable love and integrity.

International Peace Day

Smile, It's International Peace Day :)

Humanity is not a state of war but a state of peace.
Peace is not a human luxury but a human necessity.

Mercy

'I desire mercy, not sacrifice.' (From the Call of Matthew)