Fractured

One whispered word, I barely heard

Upon your face, a hidden trace

                                                                      It left me fractured

How standing still, takes such will

Must I contemplate, love triumphs hate

                                                                      It left me fractured

Proudly you smile, heart of guile

Yet I forgive, those demons live

                                                                      It left me fractured

Is it bittersweet, again this defeat

I'm sorely broken, take the token

                                                                      It left me fractured


©S. Austin Vincoski
                                                                     

Cars

I'm looking out the window
Watching the cars drive by
I wonder where there going
And am curious as to why

Is it a long business trip
Or off to shop at the mall
Some really speed by fast
Others move by at a crawl

Maybe to hurry off to work
Or home after a long day
Do some live near by here
Did some go the wrong way

I can never see their faces
I assume they don't know me
Because no one ever stops
It's just car after car I see

©S. Austin Vincoski

Destiny

 

If you could hold your fragile future

In the very palm of your hand

Have your destiny revealed to you

As our Lord so perfectly planned

Would you then make differen't choices

Knowing of the trials and pain

Or see through it to the lessons

Then glorify his holy name

Would you feel cheated and regret

If achievement turned failure someday

Or be thankful for the chance presented

As to a fair and just God you pray

Will you shake your fists, frustrated

Seeing that your loved ones must leave

Or be rejoiceful in the knowledge

That in our savior they all believe

When you saw no fruit for each labor

Did you then think, why should I bother

Or see a content, but humble life

And still thank your heavenly father

Only at our Lord's preappointed time

Will our earthly lives then end

And how we've embraced this destiny

Is a journey we all must decend

So will you curse the heaven's in anger

Screaming "This isn't what I deserved"

Or peacefully kneel in your silence

And pray to the loving God you served

 

©S. Austin Vincoski