Family COMMUNion

Formed from the dust breathed into life Redemption a must Deceived by the wife And woman she groaned In travail she cried the man worked the ground a curse well applied And then way back when All of creation still felt the plan and wept for redemption And the oldest, the male... cursed like He said… Cain he killed abel Moses he fled after the Pharaoh had marked him for dead And Abraham prayed and for his son, he pled and God heard his prayer and spilled not Isaac's blood And on down the lineage Jonathan, Saul, We see the battle in  Solomon's fall The fruit and the carnage of Redemption's call Always, the fighting for the oldest son's soul All that are marked and some that are stole And I know there's choice and that there's free will but the Liar himself steals and he kills Life came from woman And freed her from the curse But salvation from man made his freedom worse And here in my famil...

Strains of Glory fill this place The echoes of something I've never seen My heart still glowing, a warmth within As if I've left where I have not been I remember sadness I remember pain the shot-out loneliness the blackest stain and sleepy eyes and dreamy steps and the quiet knowing that it's not over yet simple promises in starlit visions wrap the pain and sanctify prisons and morning takes me back to earth where darkness held me gives me worth and solidified promise and love's strong pull it makes it holy it keeps me here The land I was made for still burns in my heart as I sip at my coffee and brave the days start and emotions they weigh on me more than I can stand they pulsate within me and shake clean, strong hands All of these duties that come to an end all of these feelings that force me to bend destined for promise in dark strange men's country danger and toil to daily confront me There in the night You become m...