Hear Your Heart Beat
© 2005 susan mucklow
Let go, dear soul, the struggle will cease
Clamoring thoughts offend perfect peace
Let go of the ravenous, reasoning beast
Come to me, for singleness of mind
Leave the burden of thinking behind
The irrational mind will just dazzle you blind
Surely complexity cuts like a knife
And worry gives birth to analytical strife
When thought stands alone it will minimize life
Look to me, where simplicity is sound
Look to me, your pulsating ground
I intuitively rule; I alone am crowned
I’ll rule your being with the power of virtue
Tempered by love, lest my raw power hurt you
Allow me to speak, to nourish and nurture
In quiet I draw you – deep calls to deep
I’m wooing you, Susan, your essence to keep
To hear my message is to hear your heart beat
Listen to me today and forever
In me is a unity that can never be severed
May following me be your constant endeavor
For I stand apart in wisdom and power
I am your heart, your fortress and tower
Tis my rescue you seek in each final hour
I’m your endless supply, your life-giving source
Your refuge and resource, your pathway and course
Let go of the lower…see the high life enforced
Coming Forth
© 2005 susan mucklow
Season me to bear more fruit
Let there be a coming forth
Prune each branch, make deep the root
Bring me through this time of birth
Shallowness cannot remain
Deep yearnings must be heard
Let truth through shattered silence reign
In richly spoken word
Convict me of reality
Persuade me, inner truth
Bring me to maturity
Relieve me of my youth
I know there is no easy way
And losing brings great pain
But the joy that waits will not betray
Great loss becomes my gain
So walk me through this barren place
Break up my fallow ground
Tis “I” that I have yet to face
My mercy must be found
Convict me of reality
Persuade me, inner truth
Bring me to maturity
Relieve me of my youth
Conflicts of the Ego
© 2005 susan mucklow
I look for words and once again my hand returns to pen
They find each other comfortably as dear and loyal friends
I look to find a quiet place, a season of reprieve
Mindful of a promised land with room for me to breathe
I find my heart’s desire is to adequately express
(For you see, too often here of late, expression I repress)
But not today, and not for long, for change is in my heart
And Change is very adamant to finish what it starts
Life wants not the vessel to struggle to become
It glories in a vessel that will let the two be one
I’ll end the inner push, false voice demanding to be heard
Lest my enemy through outer means cause words to be absurd
I’ll find my rest on higher plain, in the land of being no one
And leave behind the lowlands with its chaos and conundrum
I’ll marry true humility and from this union I’ll address
All the conflicts of the ego that would bid me to digress
Heresy, Lunacy, or Sanity?
© 2006 susan mucklow
I hear a revelation
Toying with my heart
Taunts from unknown sources
Hide meaning in the dark
My eyes have yet to see it
My heart can hear the sound
I reach within the darkness
To tackle higher ground
I will not fear the blindness
Sightless eyes will see
The height of my existence
Is to live my life as me
Deep whispers with an urging
“Go beyond the soul
Let go of mental reason
That wholeness may unfold”
No room for separation
Two must become one
Surrender and resistance
Collide and I’m undone
Inner work of unity
Christ living as me
Heresy or lunacy
Alas, my sanity
Lost Emotion
© 2006 susan mucklow
In a world of lost emotion, where’s the fire for my soul
Will I stand in desolation; will I ever be made whole?
Lost, alone, no hand to guide me; all the props fallen away
I will fight to see with blinded eye, the heart that’s gone astray
Revive, Eternal passion! Consume the empty years
Turn mourning into laughter, satisfy my tears
Speak! Oh inner presence, become the “me” I choose
Reveal a simple purpose, un-complicate my views
Return to me, Compassion! Redeem the stolen years
Refuse the desolation, relinquish fallen tears
Return to me, Compassion! Come back, oh healing song
Breathe within the hollow where weakness makes me strong
Revive, Eternal passion! Yield beyond all fears
Turn-key unholy prison, cast off the barren years
Speak, oh voice of courage! Dream beyond the doubt
Reclaim the lost emotion as the sacred heart comes out
I left the world of lost emotion; through the fire in my soul
Rose above the desecration; recognized that I am whole
Not alone, my heart still guides me; all the props led me astray
I fought and saw with blinded eye the “me” who’s unafraid
Love’s Fruition
© 2007 susan mucklow
Searching for a deeper love
Beyond the stinging surface
Reaching for a higher truth
To give the pain a purpose
Stretching for the higher view
Where all is only good
Reaching for a deeper faith
Till all I see is you
Emerge as one by trusting in
A love we cannot see
Love that turns your heart to me
Is the love I choose to be
Who I am is who you are
See one, you’ve seen the other
Reflection of a perfect core
Is just beneath the cover
Hard season, you were needed
Contrast bares the rightful glory
Sorrow restores the laughter
That truer hearts had seeded
United, not divided
nYour life becomes my own
No more tares between us
I’m safe, I am your home
Turn the Table
© 2007 susan mucklow
What I hear within the dark
I translate in the light
What is whispered in my ear
Is proclamated as I write
What I offer to humanity
Comes purely from my view
No motive of conformity
I also want what’s “you”
What first appears opposing
Encounters unity
An endless loop encircles
To form community
Black ink upon white paper
Heightened glory in the two
If separate from each other
I am lessened, so are you
So please accept my person
Partake of who I am
Don’t ask and I won’t try
to be your sacrificial lamb
Who I am is all I have
For you it is the same
Kill individuality
Inside religious games
There is no separation
I am you and you are me
By design we need each other
To spark divinity
Uncover the authentic self
Remove the mask and label
The core of our true nature
Will begin to turn the table