Hellish Cavern

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Joshua Fahey 

Outdoor Cleanliness

Marshmallows and graham crackers

Are messy to eat

Melted chocolate still in the wrappers

And a sigh in defeat

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Joshua Fahey 

Caste

Siloed, split, solitarily sorted

Boxed and labeled for ease of use

And when the upper caste needs a fix

None packed daré to come loose

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Orb

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Acts

I bow, my head lowered

My back and neck bent

My eyes not looking forward

Humility sincerely meant

I kneel, before my brother

My king, shepherd, Lord

And not any other

Nor in another’s sward 

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Joshua Fahey 

Chasm

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Joshua Fahey

Impossibility

Only a fool doesn’t try

To cross a chasm that wide

Go where the lights

But instead seeks to hide

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Joshua Fahey 

Spectacle

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Joshua Fahey 

No Escape

From the eternal springs

A race of immortal kings

Whose permanent names

In unquenching flames

Are never forgotten or erased

From that eternal, they are based

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Joshua Fahey 

Down a Hill

Underside and roll

Dodging the pole

Hitting the dam

Underscore the BAM!

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Ants

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Excited

Steel cage

Steal the rage

Seal the wrath

Surreal path

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Thumbed Scales

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Pure Scheme

Would that I could be sure

Of a long term joy

I’d man that plan so pure

Scheming any ploy

No guess, it’s a yes to be

Following on His Way

A king, I’ll sing out free

A man, I’ll kneel and pray

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Joshua Fahey 

Toilet Paper

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Joshua Fahey 

Importance of Prayer

With the need to face

I twist

The logic to brace 

I twist

The faults to confront

I twist

The church bells are blunt

I twist

With grace, discomfited prayer

I twist

Yet in my bleats you are there

You untwist

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Joshua Fahey

Raining Paths

Fearing the rain is the path to the desert

Not fearing the rain is the path to death

Loving the rain leads out of the desert

Not loving the rain is a final breath

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Joshua Fahey 

Social Butterfly

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Wedge

Shoulders stiffened, arms awry

Eyes strained looking at the lie

With a little focus, and a long breath

A relaxed tension seeks out death

In the eyes of gods, mortals are fools

Knocking balls with self imposed rules

In the eyes of God, who became man,

Freedom is swinging a ball out of sand

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Joshua Fahey 

Slop

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Wayfaring Home

Not found in the dustiest tome

Seen in any palacial pinnacle 

Nor hidden in any corner I roam

Is a home where peace is full

Only in the quiet hall

Adorned by a man on a tree

Dead because of our fall

Is home found, joyous and free

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Joshua Fahey 

Gaming

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Hell

I’ve made my blade dull

Joints worn down, eyes glossed

My heart no longer full

Wandering, a man who’s lost

No pleasure pleases again

No fear motivates the battle

A thousand deaths like rain

I meander on like cattle

This is the hell I drank

Of vices small but rank

No virtues high or low

Tepid does my spirit flow

Always walking at a loss

But in my speech

I cannot reach

The path of the Savior’s cross

Always talking like a fool

And without grace

I cannot face

Hiding my eyes with wool

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Joshua Fahey 

Penitent

Few freeze the feathered or fluffed

Gone like geese ungathered, agape

Harrowing the healthy hordes of hope

Like Jezebel, jeering, adjoined to jest

Yet kept, clean, the community quickens

In lively lilt of hallowed love

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Joshua Fahey 

Tools

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Joshua Fahey 

Acedia

Idling, idling, hardly idling

No rest, rest, rest, yet empty

Whispers sifting, cajoling, sidling

No prayers, yet pleasures plenty

Death does not come quick enough

For the life filled with fluff

In apathetic misandry rip’ning

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Joshua Fahey 

Take Up Your Cross

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Detached

Wealth or fame, let it go

Dig a hole, dig it deep

Family the same

Dig a hole, do not weep

Digging holes? Let that go too

Dig a hole, fill it up

With He who is love, source of the true

Let it go, drink his cup

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Joshua Fahey 

Boiling

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Joshua Fahey 

Nexus

When left and right meet

At a point so oblique

The voices all weep

Like the seed of a tree

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Joshua Fahey