Choose

Choose

My mind is a barren wasteland

Quiet in a hardened steel kind of way

I feel the pull of the tug to join into the fray, yet

That is just a place of distraction, diversion

It is truly not the place where there is quiet rest

That place is found in the garden of the nest

Where wings of love and goodness cover

Where dreams untold are now discovered

Where truth and beauty are always revealed

Where the steel of my mind does bend and kneel

To the greater gift of goodness, to the greater truth of light

And in that place I truly discover the purpose of the night

I still am in the barren, yet my feet have begun to move

To find the land of goodness I simply have to choose

And not put it off for another day, another time

Today I will enter my rhyme

It is time

K, Duane Carter 9-13-10

Honeysuckle

This is a picture

A picture of Jesus dancing over us

White robe, gold crown

Beauty, beauty all around

Golden sweetness falling off of Him

Like water vapor off a cascade

He sings and gives us quite a parade

With angelic beings and creatures never before seen

We don’t know what it all can be, what it all can mean

All we know is we are in the throes of His dance

And life is nothing less than to dwell, to bask

In the honey of His glory

K, Duane Carter 9-9-10

The Baptism

The Baptism

I fall in backwards

Into the cold, wet grave

My hands placed neatly across my chest

Laid into a place of rest

My eyes still open I see

The bubbles bubbling over me

They climb up toward the towering trees

As sunlight still pierces the surface

And as I reach the depths I notice very quickly

That I cannot stay there

I begin to rise

As the water bears me up

It brings me up to the surface

And I rise with the oxygen toward the light

And I come up

A new man

A new creation

A new son

With a new love

And a new heart

Making a new start

As the old stays down on the bottom

My eyes take in the light

And the wind whispers through the trees

Strength returning to my knees

So I may now walk in the difference                               


K. Duane Carter 9-17-09