TRUTH...

TRUTH

Sometimes truth can
strike with ferocious
turmoil..
Blunt, to the point,
seeking justice..
Truth unveils love,
 ugliness, and pain..
It splits and rips down
to the marrow..
Truth can belittle,
maim, and scar ..
It relieves sorrow
untold ..
Truth tells a secret
hidden..
Yes, truth brings
light where darkness
destroyed..
Relationships severed
when truth speaks..
Stand alone or
stand with many..
Truth will always know
who you really are..
TRUTH..

Patsy McNutt Morgan
03/23/17

THE RACE...

THE RACE...

Feeling the race of life,
I'm lost today..
Coming to the finish,
faint of mind, body, and spirit ..
Battered,bruised, weak,
and spent..
Tortured, bloody,
 callused, near
forgotten..
Sorrowful, tearful,
 and berated..
Looking at the crowd,
running to finish..
No one there to say
Well done ..
Just faceless images
I see as I stumble and
finish..
Last to cross..
No accolades of gladness..
Just my tears..

Patsy McNutt Morgan
03/22/17

I'M A LITTLE BROKEN...

I'M A LITTLE BROKEN...

I'm a little broken..
Since childhood,
secrets buried deep
where wounds go
to heal..
Since adolescence,
when memories still
return to echo through
canyons of mind
and heart ..
Since young adulthood,
where the foundation
of a whole new life
built a marriage, a
family with blood,
sweat and tears..
Now my older life..
I wonder why it all
passed so quickly ..
Yes, I'm a little broken..
My shoulders became
bent from the load of worry,
sacrifices, labor and lifting..
I've called upon the Rock,
my Savior, my Lord..
When I feel like I'm a
little broken..
I always cast myself upon
the one who mends and
heals all the broken pieces..

Patsy McNutt Morgan
03/19/17

I DIDN'T MOVE...

I DIDN'T MOVE ...

 I didn't move ..
You did..
I'm only me,
always..
I speak only
what I believe..
It's my truth..
It's my faith..
It's my stand..
I didn't move..
You did..

Patsy McNutt Morgan
03/09/17

RISE AGAIN...

Releasing  moments
of time arrested..
Winds of change to
have them return..
Shadows emerge
to darken forever..
Promises forgotten
to haunt and scar..
Faults of bitterness
surge and erode..
Perpetual contentment
abandoned and
forgotten ..
Still there is hope..
Light contains and
succumbs every
dark corner..
Life flourishes from
its wake ..
Water envelopes but
I rise again..
Rise again to
be renewed,
refreshed, revived..
Turn and face a
brand new day ..

Patsy McNutt Morgan
03/06/17