Ask

Daily, given as we ask

Why don't ask for more?

Bread to sate and fill

All we spiritually poor

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Joshua Fahey

Floating

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Joshua Fahey 

Wisdom in Construction

Measuring once and cutting twice

Is certainly a brash vice

Measuring twice and cutting once

Keeps me from being a dunce

Measuring thrice and never cutting

Means that my soul is rotting

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Joshua Fahey

Rest

Bedding of cotton, linen, and straw

Bedding of gravel and grass in thaw

Underground, at height, many sleep

The Son of man, restless, raised to weep

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Joshua Fahey

Spark

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Joshua Fahey 

Turning Away

What does the eye learn by being closed?

That it cannot see

What does the hand learn being clenched?

That it cannot free

What does man learn by dying?

That he cannot end

What does a soul learn from sin?

That he cannot ascend

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Joshua Fahey

Bloody Witness

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Joshua Fahey 

Cradle Catholic Privilege

Fed before I knew to starve

Taught before losing the way

Calmed before every storm

Led in prayer every day

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Joshua Fahey

Lamp

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Warned

Are the flames from hell or heaven?

Is the heat for sinner or saint?

Does the warned learn the lesson?

Or is it too late?

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Joshua Fahey

Rescue Plan

Infernal threats

Demons place bets

What can save the soul?

Only God can make it whole

He waits prepared

To save those who dared

With meek yelp

Crying 'help!'

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Joshua Fahey

Pot of Unformed Meaning

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Runaway

Needing to be elsewhere from where I am

Stray from the fold, afar from any plan

From that which I cannot run, I ran

Lost

Morals tossed

Hope disgruntled, left faith to rust

Now sinking I see the cost

My burden crossed

Out of fear I begin to trust

Cry help I must

Or bust

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Joshua Fahey

Shepherd’s Staff

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Keep Steady

Listen to the flames, they beckon

Saints to praise and sinners to reckon

Listen to the good shepherd’s call

And be wary, lest you fall

Lest you fall

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Parking Mishap

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Cannot Recall

A horizon without trees

An empty seven seas

Inflexible cannot tease

Insincerity leaves

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Joshua Fahey

Getting Up, and Going Home

Post corrosive pins

On maps burning and melting

And as the mind reflects

On the soul forged from smelting

A pin needles toward

Or away within the vessel

Guiding the lost

On an adventurous special

Life

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Joshua Fahey

Joy

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Joshua Fahey 

Placing Trust

Crushed to dust and ash

Under chain, rope, and lash

This world's princes have no care

For how the people fare

Caressed, embraced, and held

Joined as in fiery weld

Sufferings become gains, no loss

While under the Prince of Peace's cross

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Joshua Fahey

Tending Bark

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Joshua Fahey

Let us Pray

Let us pray

Every day

To the end

Being a friend

And not be swayed

By the world displayed

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Joshua Fahey

Dusty Memory

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Rallying

When you can go no further

Go

Go with God

Burning with zeal and fervor

Go

Go to God

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Joshua Fahey

Persevere to the End

Pounded, battered, far afield

Painfully shattered, nothing to shield

Spirit willing while the body lies

Grace commands the dead to rise

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Joshua Fahey

Parked

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Enduring

Burning, renewing, living on ash

Finding a path between rot and clash

Joyfully acting in a world of despair

If God dared to die, what shouldn't we dare?

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Joshua Fahey

Thorn

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Close

Intimacy in words and joy

The world cannot destroy

Familiarity is only stale

When it lacks the careful veil

And solemnity of matrimony

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Joshua Fahey

To the Door

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Joshua Fahey 

Child's Journey

Allowed to fail

To know we're frail

Given to suffer

To love the other

Moved through strife

To be raised in life

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>P<

Joshua Fahey