The Untold Story

The ink that prints on my papers gentles heart

Stroking and filling the page with question marks

Waiting for me to tell it what to write

Can we connect? It asked

Are you ready to pick up the mat and walk?

When is your true story going to start?

It needs something that grabs the reader’s heart

It wants to inspire and be inspired, but I can't.

The ink wants to know, the ink asks

Question marks after question marks

It wants stories that are untold

Filled with action that is bold.

Why do you ask me to write about a dream that hasn't been lived?

An action that turned to an illusion

Faith without work

Work without faith

A disconnected life that is hard to write in cursive

A life that is illusive 

Too many periods and    gaps   between letters

Too many dots....and comas, , , in between words

They all end with question marks???

Though you have the answer

You refused to give

Though you have the passion you refused to live

The cries of your heart you ignore

The pages you kept filling with meaningless words.

Instead I want to write...

How you find meaning to your life

How you picked up the mat

How you inspired and walk the talk

How you stopped being crippled

How you stayed still and listened

How you served others without limits

How you lived your life with no regrets.

"Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.  One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”

“Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”

Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up the mat and walk" At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. " John 5:1-9

Here is a question for you and I " Do you want to get well?"

Credit : Art by Bereket Mamo

If The Soul Speaks

I nagged 

Because I loved

I fret

Because I hurt

I cried because I cared

I didn't want to let you go

Without trying

I didn't want to watch you live a life that ends in regretting

Don't worry my love I am done trying

My part is done
I won't ask you to try again
I won't ask you when?
I won't ask you where or how long

You said enough 

You just want to gratify yourself 

I just didn't want to listen

I wanted to believe and convince my self 

You loved and cared as much as I did

I will keep on living

At least knowing

Once I loved without limits

Once I cared as deep as I could 

Once I tried to save and guide

What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?

Matthew 16:26

 

The Purpose Driven Women

She made her bed next to the soft hearted,

gave up her comfort so they can be comforted.

The meek, the humble, the poor in spirit,

All became her friends whom she called blessed.

She said good bye to vanity and fine clothes,

Wrapped her body with love and kindness;

Wore the gloves of helping hands,

While putting the High heels of awesomeness,

She walked each day with a purpose,

To make this world a better place.

You can smell her scent from far away,

She wears a perfume called save one soul a day.

Though her body still craves the old ways,

Her soul desires to fulfill her purpose;

Where she finds warmth and happiness,

A heavenly peace that is endless.

"The purposes of a person's heart are deep waters, but one who has insight draws them out"

Proverbs 20:5


Painting Credit: Sharareh Chakamian