Spiral

Spiral out and spiral in
To the max and to the min
Of fear, of love, of hope, of wrath
Up and down you do the math
Up in hope for tomorrow's morn
Down in fear of the current storm
Up in love for all His kin
Down in wrath to plain from mountain
Mock the devil and mock death
Our elder brethren still have breath
And the dark is powerless in the face
Of all who have received His grace




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Joshua Fahey

Up a Tree

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Joshua Fahey

Steady

Beautiful the dance of elms
Stoic stand the oaks
Beings of steadier realms
That put to lie the hoax
That happiness is grasped and held
When it is received
Into being it is weaved
With the sun beheld



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Joshua Fahey

Watch This!

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Joshua Fahey

Silent Tune

Folly, my dear, to sing of the bird
More folly still, and more absurd
To not have listened, to not have heard
Its song as I sing of the song of the bird

Courage, my dear, it takes to stay still
To listen, to listen to life in its mill
The courage it takes to charge up, up the hill
Is needed, I need it, to let God have His Will


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Joshua Fahey

Eyes Turned Inwards

Immersed in the vault of the mind
I must think I'm blind
Lacking vision, connection, and care
I find my cupboards bare

Immersed in the sea known as me
Drinking this tea
Afraid of every ray of light
I must be lacking sight



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Joshua Fahey

Dear Sir or Madam

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Butterfly

Sweet elegant insect you glide
Onto a seraphic throne
In which seat nectar abides
You take it for your own
And then softly once more alight
With magic of fae and wight

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Joshua Fahey

Cracked Vessel

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Joshua Fahey 

Downward Spiral

How can I stop talking if the voice is in my head
If rather than building up others, I'm breaking myself instead
Never leaving my mind, my universe, my cell
How can I stop talking myself down into Hell?

The fear of conversing with others is twisting my eyes away
Colors are fading from rainbows, and night is fading from day
How is it that I cannot even stay my darkness that delves
Through each lowest on that rocket ship to Hell?

O God, I hope you're listening to this terrible creature of thine
I know you're eternally busy, I just hope you take the time
Listen to my prayers, I know they're getting thinner
But please have mercy on me, a sinner



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Joshua Fahey

I'm so Happy

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Joshua Fahey 

Duty

Littered on the causeways of my nefarious train
Are the many broken ideas of my broken brain
Buried under the soft haze and refuse of a broken soul
Maybe I haven't said broken enough yet? Increase the poll
Yet I enjoy in an odd way the confusion and the strife
The chance of meeting the tiger with the knife
I enjoy the darkness and the illusion and the light
But my loyalty is given to one, the just one, who gives me sight


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Joshua Fahey

I Hear Too Much, Yet Cannot See

What is mine to be and hear
What is fearlessness but fear?
Why in the dance of dust
I've not yet heard what I must?
Who must I be today?
To whom am I owed, I pray
Beyond my ken and sight
Where are you tonight?


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Joshua Fahey

A Fan

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Keyboards

Gorillas blaring in two step rainbow
Chimps muttering of Billy's sideshow
'Tyrants always thus to thee'
Type the monkeys in D.C.
'Roses smelly by your name'
Summing up the dis-guessing game


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Joshua Fahey

Out Staffed

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From Home to Work to Play

From home to work to play

Each place I enter, each place I go

I am stepping in to pray

Prayer that's fast and slow

Prayer of which I know

He hears every word I say

Before the break of dawn

I praise your glory for the sun

Even after the sun has gone

I am thankful for what you've done

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Joshua Fahey

Plaque

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Flint & Steel & Coal

Coal does not gleam, does not glitter

Unless ignited by flame

Then heat is returned ten times over

And light reveals a new name

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Joshua Fahey

Stepping Back to Step Forward

Slow is impossible for those without breath
Fast only happens to us after death
Patience is calmness whilst the storm rages on
The eye in the chaos that the world lingers on
The world is always dying and is likewise never slow
And rages all the more against those it cannot throw


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Joshua Fahey

Blue in Light

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I Will Spit You Out

At sea when waters are still
That's when anxiety gels
Ringing out alarm bells
For nothing is daring

For those souls lacking the will
They are in the most danger
To God there is nothing stranger
For a soul that is tepidly uncaring



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Joshua Fahey

This River?

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All the Things

All the things you've done for me
Who could count? Not even I know the amount
Your help is deep as the sea

Yet every breath I breathe is a squandering
My hands are a sieve, for the gifts you give
Astray I've been wandering

There is nothing in heaven or on earth
No repayment of stuff, that could be enough
All I have is 'Thanks', for all it's worth


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Joshua Fahey

Wolf

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Shady Haiku

What does color do?
Even mute it shows beauty
Lights reality's soul



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Joshua Fahey

Climb

Mountains have that calm face
That divine and sacred space
Untouched by the human race
Even those who were there

Mountains have that high peak
To which angels might speak
With voices not for the weak
Reality laid bare

The mountain in my soul
Must be climbed higher, higher
On that tor I'll stand whole
My sacrifice in fire



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Joshua Fahey

More Kiwi

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Twilight

Shadows are long when the bright light is low
Distorting the paths we see and we know
Shadows of darkness that stem from the light
Giving a fright

Streetlights illumine the trails of the Fae
Giving illusions of showing the way
Twisting the darkness into the light
Dimming the sight

And yet, the trees whisper
The calm wind blows free
Reality seems crisper
At the count of three

Moonlight and starlight beckons my soul
Wonder and magic making me whole
Life everlasting pouring His blood
Into figures of mud



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Joshua Fahey

Small Spark

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Sweets

I don't believe in candy
In syrup or in cake
I don't believe in ice cream
But I still partake

I believe in veggies
In potatoes and in steak
I believe in cereal
Keeping me awake

I do not need happiness
Sadness or desire
But all of them in symphony
Praising God in choir


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Joshua Fahey