Words Out of Reach

© 1990 susan mucklow

Words out of reach
Thoughts without rhyme
Change will conform
This place in time

Reason reaches deep
Comfort cries aloud
Destiny speaks softly
And silences the crowd

Sorrow has no season
Regret has no regard
Decision holds the answer
When questions get this hard

Sanctity

© 1992 susan mucklow

From deep within my spirit
Came an echo to my soul
You spoke to me in silence
My heart became your goal

Your Hand found rest upon me
Caused a faithless heart to trust
You filled me with awareness
Stirred me up with your caress

The fusion of our spirits
Became my sanctity
Moved by just your presence
My heart found unity

Love crossed every border
To find a love that’s true
Freedom of exploration
Reveals the me in you

From deep within my spirit
Comes an echo to my soul
You speak to me in silence
My heart remains your goal

Psalm 131

© 1994 susan mucklow

My heart is not haughty
My eyes are not lofty
Great matters do not concern me
Oh my soul hope thou in God

I’ve chosen Your wisdom
Apart from my reason
Your counsel now satisfies me
Oh my soul hope thou in God

My soul is right within me
Its begging has ceased
It is weaned from the pride of life
Oh my soul hope thou in God

In constant communion
My mind is renewed
Your truth is the end of all strife
Oh my soul hope thou in God

Even There

© 1994 susan mucklow

If I take the wings of morning
Or dwell in the deepest sea
Even there your hand shall guide me
And I find you…even there

If I say darkness shall befall me
And despair is all I see
Then the night turns to light about me
And I find you…even there

If my thoughts wander far from you
And I walk in a strange land
Still you understand my every pathway
And I find you…even there

If I fall into a dark abyss
And in hell I make my bed
Then I rise where I have fallen
And I find you…even there

Time of Turning

© 1994 susan mucklow

When will the tears within
Start to fall without
To release my soul
Relieve this heart of doubt

How can you still believe?
I just don’t understand
With all that I go through
It’s a wonder you still can

I don’t mean to be
The way I am sometimes
I don’t want to break your heart
Or ever lose your love

You know my way
You see the hidden part
Still you hold me close
To pierce my troubled heart

Now my sorrow’s full
The time of turning’s near
My soul’s in full remorse
Can it be that you’re still here?

Choice

© 1998 susan mucklow

Again, I see, I have a choice
It’s up to me, I choose the voice
One voice says, “There’s no way out.”
Endorsing weakness, feeding doubt
It says to me, “Just take a look…
…you’re predictable as a much read book”
It taunts me with my deepest fears
Twists the truth, heckles and jeers
This voice is cruel and has no end
It lies to me, becomes my sin

Another voice says, “Choose your view
release the fear, love will ensue”
It says, “Yes, please, take a look…
…at who you are inside my book.”
It lifts me out of dark despair
Inflames the truth with holy flair
This voice is kind and has no end.
Instructing me not to defend

So there is a choice, yet none at all
Sweetness of one turns the other to gall
When I choose Loves voice in me,
I easily merge with Love by degrees
And when I see all that Love sees,
It’s easy to live, to love and to be
Perspective is a heart of change
And all of life is re-arranged