Trevor Toews Poems

I am working on something, working every day.
It won't be finished for a long, long time.
And I don't want to force it to completion anymore.
Every time I work with haste, I cause delay
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The shrieking crowd,
Hungry snarl of beasts,
Hot, blood-soaked sand.
All this
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Let me live,
And I will live for Christ,
Kill me once
And I'll live in paradise
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When someone faithful passes from this life
And is a guide by his example
Do not eulogize.
He is a window to the kingdom,
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Ciao Bella!
They said to my little girl
And I knew beauty looks the same
All around the world.
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When my heart is heavy
And the Lord seems far away,
When my lips are parted
But I cannot start to pray,
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The world should have a Universal Sign
for 'I am SO, SO, SORRY! '
I hoped my hands, palms out, and pleading eyes sufficed
When, lolligagging in a careless line
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When I arrive, in tattered garments,
And tarnished armor, dented shield and sword.
I’ll feel so filthy from the earthly battle,
So weak and feeble and undone.
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And somehow, in the clutter, and the clamor of our life
There was time for tears.
A break in the weather, when the storm stood still,
And we cried together.
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The world upside-down! I like it this way better,
So glad I entered after its inverting.
Now there’s grace, and things aren’t to the letter
Now there’s comfort when I’m hurting.
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