Calm Before the Storm

Silence while the noise is breaking
Chaos calmed by anxious fear
Evil stilled in anticipation
God has died and been buried here

Yet the devil sits unnerved
And the world strives to see
While the faithful gather near
Singing, praying, peacefully

God bless,
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Joshua Fahey

Thorns and Crown

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Joshua Fahey

You Know

You know my thoughts
You know why I
Fear to show my feet
You know my doubts
You know my lie
And my eventual defeat



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Joshua Fahey

Stations X-XIV

Life stripped bare, before the tree

The noble tree of life

Without care or decency

We give Him so much strife

Life nailed there, upon the tree

The noble tree of life

Bloodied, bare, and suffering

We give Him so much strife

Death claims Life, upon the tree

Blood pours out for all

Death has won on calvary

Life takes mankind’s fall

A body plucked from the tree

The noble tree of life

A mother buckled on her knee

Crying out her strife

Life wanders into the tomb

Three days into deathly doom

Three days behind a heavy stone

On the third, Death has flown

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey 

Stations VI-IX

Life wanders though the body’s worn

Though the mind’s peace has been shorn

Veronica sees the suffering pace

And gives her care to wipe His face

Life falters once again that morn

Upon a body bruised and torn

And once again bears the weight

And walks the path narrow, straight

Life wanders where the women mourn

And asks not to weep for Him forlorn

But weep for themselves, for their kin

Who have long been subject to sin

Life falters a final time that morn

A final rising to the cross is borne

And finally comes to calvary

Life wanders to patiently

God bless,

>P<

Joshua Fahey 

Stations I-V

Life wanders where people scorn
Where people kill what has been born
One born (yet not born) who will die
Condemned by Pilate's slothful lie

Life wanders under burden's borne
On wood that deathly pains adorn
The innocent that gladly bears
Our cruel hearts and sinful wares

Life falters once upon that morn
And stumbles onto hands so worn
Yet once again upon His feet
Life goes on without defeat

Life's warm berth for nine months borne
Obedient soul to Gabriel's horn
O'er thirty years has watched His way
With sword in heart watches today

Life has friends e'en when forlorn
Who will lighten what one has borne
And steady the sway and heft the load
Simon keeps straight Life's road


God bless,
>P<
Joshua Fahey

Lay me Down

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Joshua Fahey