Mark Walters Poems

I didn't die to ease your life

To fill your wallet
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Hope's in a living future
Not just a storied past
Patchwork prairies still hold vast
Vistas sewn in peace that last
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While looking thru my rearview
I drive where I have been
It offers such a clear view
Of where I was back then
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I'm dying of thirst from wanting my way;
Drank deep from the well of sin in my day.
My life is now potsherds; all broken and dry;
Don’t have the moisture, to spit in their eye.
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A slumber in the light of day
My comfort zone, tar baby's arms
In depravity I slept away
Till true love spoke Your charms
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Amidst my life, the world explodes
I see my plans and hopes erode
Assumptions break apart as glass
Swirling down into a dark morass
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To steer the compass course of life
Set the rigging of your heart
Against the winds of care and strife
That strain to tear our lives apart
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As the twilight follows daytime
And daybreak follows night
So we are led to find our way
In the timing of His light
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I met a ragged man
Who walked a crooked mile
Though he was stooped, and weary
I thought I caught a smile
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Adulation and praise
Twisted sisters of desire
Bred in every heart that beats
Born to stoke a hellish fire
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