Ode to Love

I have been improved By the hardships I've endured Most by my own hand My mind yet untamed I have learned to tame myself To some slight degree Thus there's a new hope One altogether mundane Simply beautiful To ride out these days As reality crumbles And Jesus returns I don humbleness Some basic humility To quiet (my mind/the storm) They start to return Breaking through my loneliness Cushioning the blow And a clear path gleams Leading me to fresh waters And uncluttered life Toggling within No longer deafening noise I wait patiently

Two thirty seven Helluva time to start A mission like this A mission to save The many multiverses Bringing it all down Making it all right While I'm making it nonsense Just cleansing effects From all dark matter We all hide from dark matter An inverse effect I brought the whole team Believe that means a whole lot In any time frame Father leads the dead My mother leads the living All rejoin the fight It's a solid plan The right moves with the wrong end Nothing turns out right But I become sane Influenced by the bywords Clawing back to right

A train is coming It will destroy all of this Shattering strongholds As a metaphor It will dash all of our hopes Leaving just pieces In the literal Something comes to end our lives Juggernaut of time While there is time left I claw at slippery slopes Further entrenched tracks With the horn blaring I consider the end times And futility God saves the wretched Even those who avoid it (Unable/unwilling) to bend But the train treks on A dire collision course Through the hearts of men We lay on the tracks Collectively unmoving Blissfully stubborn

Casting a shadow Things are taken for granted When you're not thinking But what when things shift And you're thinking all the time And you cannot stop Time slows to a crawl And my heart breaks each second With little recourse How can you relate I'm convinced I'm unique How can anyone These poems explain A near broken man's cadence But oh so poorly If you only knew How I truly feel inside The world would melt But since it does not Here I melt inside instead Body breaking down I'm found unworthy By most I have encountered Yet I'm still alive

The eve of the storm I can feel it in my bones Battle or night in? The lightning flashes Dimmed by the flurries of snow Quite unnatural This must be a dream As I gaze into the skies Illuminated So I journey forth Unaware of what's to come Yet so confident Dose of the unreal Mixed with imagination A hint of (wonder/happy/\moxy\wisdom) To tame wild souls One must also tame the mind So I seek to tame Single star of hope Shining despite the weather Raging with the storm I whistle a tune One of a subdued maelstrom Down these paths dim lit

In the beginning I felt you as close as skin Now my flesh itches Our hearts still connect There's too much interference The world's stripped me As friends fall away My body like a prison Thoughts running rampant This room is a cell The paths offered like shackles I have no control But there is still hope A fools hope in this cruel life That God is near done Done counting his sheep Despite my (faults/sins) counting me We've reached the last lap So here I hold out Hope dangling on a thread Each step burdened more Jesus cleanse my heart Lighten on me this burden I'm at your mercy

We each hear a song Of fun despite loneliness A summer anthem My cousin shoots it My friend and I act it out Playing different roles He plays the hero I embody fun itself Dancing wildly Float down the river With puppets along the way The party grows still I pull up the map Finding our destination And then we set off An amphitheater Set amidst a grassy plain The concert venue The tune continues We are joined by a guest star Ed Sheeran himself He sings the next verse Product of a broken road Well versed with the tune