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The Journey
Amongst sages and scholars, saints and loversStudents and servants, martyrs and callersProvidence did afford so opportune a travelThat this tangled quilt so woven may unravelLaden with sin outstripped by only remorseOf how things should have been had I stayed the courseSo heedless and reckless, did I Thy favor abuseSnared so deeply by my own deadly ruseOnly to learn that with…
October 9, 2024Late
From wherest will you find a balm to soothe regretFrom when will you bring back yesterday
October 2, 2024Arrival
Two things true, when unassuming do ensueWhen thy search for why be overWill sincerity be your portion trueWhen thy faults to look at anotherLeave no occasion, will ensueOpens swiftly humility’s door
October 2, 2024Betrayal
I looked and lookedAnd yet my heart yearned moreLooking for pleasure greater than beforeSo many faces, so little timeHow my heart races, to make each one mine.Each day my eye feasts anewAs I drink deep the lustful wine.Wherstwile inside soul and sinewDo wither with passing time.Burned by guilt, consumed by shameBefore Him I must present my nameAnd a heart that…
October 2, 2024Like No Other
How wide one opens the door to his heart, to let another inThus deep does he risk, the dagger be thrust withinBut He who values worthless pebbles as pearls so fineWidens His guard so much more, lest hurt befall this heart of mine.
October 2, 2024Fog
A heavy mist blanketed all that lay around me, softly shifting and ephemeralAnd I hurried home amidst the gray haze-In hasty search for clarityI too easily squandered the beauty of the veiled.
October 2, 2024Faltering Steps
I wandered hither and yonder, faltered whither astrayTill Mercy let me no longer wanderAnd settled my tired feet upon this pure way
October 2, 2024Long Waits
Leisurely ticks the second hand.Making customary circuits andLazy rounds, within the perimeter of eternity.While bounds, of anticipation set me freeOf time, allowing each moment to be a Meeting mineEach longing sigh, a secret poem thine.
October 2, 2024Weeds
Sickened by disease; Taken root so deepWhose tentacles seize; My soul’s infinite sweep To every crevice and recess; It’s chilling fingers caressCreeping further still; till I find no restGroping silently in night within, to rid what I detestI find myself dying; In full view of my self no less So simple it seems; to uproot this fiendBut every time I…
October 2, 2024Dreamchaser
Turn where I mayStill engulfed by an emptinessWithout escapeHowever quickly I runIt outpaces meWherever I hideI find, It has outstripped meI loathe that lonelinessThat hallow abyssGnawing away at a soulthat has let go and lies helplessAs if to say: ‘do of me as you will’I cannot evade theeI know no other world than this bleak horizonUnder whose shadow I abideKnowing…
October 2, 2024Forever Together
I let go of your handAnd feel the same visceral painThat I have grown used toTears well in the throatThat I am too unwilling to set free The wrenching hurt that only love can levyHas become my lot, with and without youToo familiar with its raw embraceIt has become for meA closer mate than theeWhen apart, your memorySwells wide this…
October 2, 2024Raising the Axe
Every idol that I hatedI found staring at me withinThe house that You had createdTo be fully free from sin None the world’s watersCan cleanse this impurityNone the mountain’s firesCan burn away this infidelity It needs not hesitant whispersWhen one is to proclaim openlyIt needs not the hand that faltersWhen one is to strike decisively My arms are weak I…
October 2, 2024No Words
To beauty capture, no greater world did I findThan the cadent word, the cantic rhymeTo give expression to the ineffable, depth to that unfathomedAll of beauty, great and small, thus embodiedI stand speechlessUnable to find the words for He who lies beyond my world
October 2, 2024Shadow of the Tsunami
So much to say, never spokenThough even the blind can speakFrom a dam, partially brokenA breaking trickle begins to leakAs concrete seams let out whimpersAnd towering walls cast a sighThe volley continues upon the raftersCreaking under rain-like thunderYearning to be rent asunderI never knew what solemn fateWould this rusted dam befallOr how endlessly vastLaid waters behind their crusted wallsNever did…
October 2, 2024Coming Home
If love were a city I would crawl through every alley On hand and knee Feeling every crevice Caressing each contour Of it’s aged pavement Relishing each touch Wondering at each turn Lost on streets, with names long forgotten Meandering past walls never named It would trouble me little The distance left to traverse The steady, unrelenting passage of time…
October 2, 2024Recovery
I lose myself Over and over again How can I find out Who I am I’ve let myself slip so slowly No longer knowing Where I am or what I’m doing Drowning in a world of confusion Driven by the illusion That I know where I’m going I bow my head toward my heart And feel that little spark A…
March 13, 2024Confessions
I will not admit I love you Even though that is what I feel For fear of feeling like every other Who did feel something so real I will not say I love you Even though I truly do For that is to speak a word too often spoken to One I wish to offer something new I will sing…
March 12, 2024