for shawn haggerty

friend i mean not to frighten you nor alarm you
but these are desperate times
act in earnestness
and act now:

in quiet moments
perfect stillness
leaves
listless
recall the end of days
as memory,
the end of holiness as
opaque disdain,

friend, we are
but

one

soul seeking our eternity:

where all are saints
and angels, where all
are ascendant and attuned

to the tender Love that is not merely
a passive gift christened to those worthy
for all are worthy yet
few are deserving--

friend, there is an unsaid war
and few are willing to fight
this psychic battle that wails long into the night

as allies, you and i,
you must listen,
for in this war you must be equipped
with but one cry:

Prevail! for Bliss has never abandoned you:
it has only challenged you to find Her, again,
and such is our war as mortals!

to garner such eager madness as to
collide with every morsel of infinity!
without fear! without wain!

Prevail! do not submit to that which dissuades us
for it is our destiny to know the Lord's Compassion
and realize our true nature

which is not of greed, nor avarice, nor hate, nor spite,
for such things are but mere deceptions that lie without question
that lie in hearts that seek merely shelter, not joy!

we must know the true Ecstasy
which is not granted, but taken,
from an ever patient hand

we are but one soul
needing to see the Eye's of God
to know! to know! to know

but one thing as to no longer quake in fear:
friend, it is well known that such times are without fidelity,
but rather than close your eyes in despair,

cast your eyes and see the world
and you despise it, prevail,
and know that such assurances come not in your discerning

but in yearning,
yearning in madness in love, forever,
reaching for loves hand through grim and grime

running endlessly through this universe to know
and to be reminded and to become that which is our destiny,
to honor consciousness to life and life to consciousness

so, please, now, there is no time to waste--
every dissuasion causing hearts to rest
must end:

friend, we must act, and we must act endlessly,
and we much scourer the universe for all that
exalts, all that praises, all which causes

hands to clasp and cry out and to know each other's wills
to be not some staggering silence to all that ails our spirits
but a united preservation of our souls!

prevail! Go in madness through a broken world
seeking opportunities for martyrdom
for that dissuading forces may know that we look not to live forever

but to find Eternity!
save nothing, harbor nothing, hold nothing,
for in every moment, there are no limits

it is prophesied.
it is known.
no more waiting.

hear me friend,
for this truth is dear,

for as we wait for Life to bestow its treasures
for God to come upon us and to share us Truth,
they are merely waiting for we, mortals of this earth, to Prevail,

so that such gifts can truly hold resonance,
transforming us as true soldiers of Spirit,
rather than prisoners of the flesh.