What is Blindness?

I often wonder why
Once I see the world's complexities
I cannot return
To my immature simplicities

If I cannot go back
Then that is what the nature is
(Disappearing as in a dream)
Of the thing known as prejudice


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Joshua Fahey

Hell in a Handbasket

Fear in a bottle, haste handheld
Why run or fight or freeze or care?
Do I pay attention to the nightmare's lair?
Mourning where my light was felled
Deep grave dug by sins and pain
Wounded souls loiter in the air
A coward's shield from the bloody rain


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Joshua Fahey

Carelessness

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Joshua Fahey

Here I Hide

Here I hide beneath the bustle
The traffic over flowing
the woods in endless rustle
The river near me flowing

Here I hide in peace and chaos
Present under thought
Hark the night train and the day bus
Will never find me caught

Here I hide until I'm not here
Nor more journey left to roam
Raise up courage and conquer fear
Toward the greatest gift of home

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Joshua Fahey

A Big Rock

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Joshua Fahey

Who?

Master or Lover or Savior or King
Creator or Father or Brother
Beauty and Love, from no other
Existence and Truth, we give praise and sing


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Joshua Fahey

A Short Rest

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Joshua Fahey

Power

Power is a fickle thing
That never serves a master
An unstable tool of tyranny
That might destroy its caster


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Joshua Fahey

Patience is an Act Intolerable

Patience is an act intolerable
A ruthless range of options
To keep one from an act abominable
And keeping justice from corruptions


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Joshua Fahey

Books

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Joshua Fahey

Altitude

On top of the world
Alight with a flame
Soul soaring higher
Winning the game
But down in the valley
In the damp sod
Dwells a wee baby
Dwells our God


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Joshua Fahey

Beg

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Joshua Fahey

Prayer for Healing

Queen of heaven bend thy ear
And lend thy heart to calm my fear
Help my dependence in thy son
To grow in healing til my life is done


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Joshua Fahey

Lovely Nest

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Joshua Fahey

Evening Haiku

Still within the day
Yet at night, I ask for peace
Mercy, and for rest


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Joshua Fahey

Spirit

A challenge, rebuttal, fight and a brawl
A taming, domination, ruling of all
Mastery, apex, the climbing of the wall
Transcendence, growth is a spiritual call


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Joshua Fahey

Hang Tight

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Joshua Fahey

Morning

Bells and whistles, screaming and roaring
Technology to arouse
Toasters and stovetops, heating and searing
Breakfast in the house
Chaos and order, pushing and pulling
Family down to the mouse



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Joshua Fahey

Jesus Palm

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Joshua Fahey

Why do I Let my Heart be Troubled

Why do I let my heart be troubled
To seek out emptiness and heartbreak
To stray from you, my lover, my friend
Yet I turn away into a cage of my own make
Grant me the grace to hear you until the end
Grant me mercy so I may stay awake
Create a pure heart in me out of what is crumbled

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Joshua Fahey

Racked up

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Joshua Fahey

Blueberry Haiku

Smokey humid woods
With bushes of blueberries
Perfect for pancakes


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Joshua Fahey

Soulless Broken Things

A funny thing to break things down
Into the pieces of the whole
That cannot add up to the sum
And cannot make a soul

And yet there is much to learn
In soulless broken things
Just not as much as it is worth
To heed the King of kings


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Joshua Fahey

Belltower

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Joshua Fahey

Ovens

Ovens have their heat array
To make bread or harden clay
But ovens amidst the elite
Have cookies on a cookie sheet


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Joshua Fahey

Peter's In-Tent

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Joshua Fahey

Listening

What I need to listen
Is an absence of the noise
So that words may glisten
And sound may hold its poise

What I need to listen
Is an absence of the self
So that Truth may glisten
And not be put upon a shelf

Who I need to listen to
Is He who is the One
The point of all creation
God's only begotten Son


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Joshua Fahey

Aerie

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Joshua Fahey

A Random Thought

What I know is small compared to what I don't know
But how do I know that?
What is known by me must be held in a container of finite capacity
What is unknown by me is infinite

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Joshua Fahey

Threads Unravel in a Sundry Pace

Threads unravel in a sundry pace
Not unlike a sinusoidal race
To board a train that will crash
And fray many a life's fragile lace

All the gifts in the treasure stash
With rust and moths, gone in a flash
Leaving not a hint of dust to attain
Any part of any heavenly cash

Yet within the chaotic refrain
Against the gale stands the main
The crux of peace, a joyous place
Baptized in blood and washed in rain


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Joshua Fahey

So That's Why They Were Built

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Joshua Fahey