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Poetry

  By Glen Brereton Jr.

  Copyright Glen Brereton Jr.

  Table of Contents

  Vessel

  The Abyss

  Who Can

  Pardon

  Who’s Cool

  Make Me New

  Unclean Before You

  Purify

  Worthless

  Who Stole My Heart

  Self-Deception

  A Useful Vessel

  Dear Mr. Atheist

  My Soul Longs

  My Soul Weeps

  Bless Our Troops

  Mercy

  Faith

  Memories of You

  Fall the Tears

  Please

  Praying Mantis

  When the Sun Rises

  When the Sun Rises in the Sky

  Send Me

  Wasting My Time

  I Failed Again

  Seeking Inspiration

  Doubt, Fear, Love

  To Whomever It May Concern

  Author Bio

  Vessel

  How can You love me

  After all that I’ve done?

  How can You use me

  When I am exhausted?

  Why would You want me

  When I’m weak and broken?

  How could You forgive?

  What kind of love permits

  A thorough cleansing

  Of my hard heart and mind?

  I struggle through doubt

  And I reach out in faith.

  God if You are real:

  Reveal Yourself to me,

  Purge my hardened heart,

  Renew my filthy mind,

  Show me how to love,

  And make me transparent

  So Your love shines through

  This small vessel of Yours.

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  The Abyss

  Pull me from within

  The big black abyss

  That I have fallen

  Into its vastness

  I have fallen from Your grace

  And I cannot see Your face

  Bring me back to Your presence

  Then restore my faithfulness

  Bring me back to You

  I cannot survive

  Away from You

  Let me not succumb

  To the voice of death

  I hear beckon

  Darkness covers me

  Like a wool blanket

  And I cannot see

  From underneath it

  I have fallen from Your grace

  And I cannot see Your face

  Bring me back to Your presence

  Then restore my faithfulness

  Bring me back to You

  I cannot survive

  Away from You

  Let me not succumb

  To the voice of death

  I hear beckon

  You will never escape my grasp

  Stronger than the bite of an asp

  As the darkness tackles you

  You begin to see through

  The ignorance that surrounds you

  Like the juice in a stew

  I call out in vain

  You cannot hear me

  As I scream in pain

  And fall to my knees

  I had fallen from Your grace

  And I will not see Your face

  Now give me my consequence

  That’s in store for my faithlessness

  Take me back to death

  I cannot survive

  Away from You

  You let me succumb

  To the voice of death

  I heard beckon

  Quicker than lightning

  You lit up my world

  While I was whining

  Your grand plan unfurled

  Brought back to You

  I will survive

  Next to You

  I did not succumb

  To the voice of death

  I heard beckon

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  Who Can

  You search for a savior

  Someone to rescue you

  You need a great healer

  Someone to mend your wound

  You long for forgiveness

  Someone to pardon you

  You need a friendly hand

  To wipe away your tears

  You’re seeking a soul mate

  A sympathetic ear

  To comfort you

  I know who can save

  I know who can heal you

  I know who will forgive

  And who will comfort you

  He will give you peace

  He will give you joy

  He will give you life

  He will shower you

  With mercy and grace

  Who can save you

  The Messiah

  Who can heal you

  The lamb of God

  Who can wash away your sin

  Who can make you whole again

  Jesus the Christ

  The Son of God

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  Pardon

  I woke up one day

  Inside my cell

  When to my surprise

  The warden stood

  Adjacent to me

  Wondering what

  Was going on now

  I tried to speak

  “Please let me explain”

  The warden said

  “Last night I received

  A fax for you

  The President has

  Just granted you

  A complete pardon

  The slates are clean

  The records are burned

  If you decide

  To accept this gift

  If you refuse

  Then the deal is off”

  “Is this a joke?”

  I asked him still shocked

  He told me “No”

  “Here is your copy

  Do you accept?”

  “Yes” I screamed with joy

  Then I asked him

  “What do I do now?

  I have no job

  No home to go to”

  “The President

  Has asked you to work

  For Him right now

  A guaranteed job

  And a big house

  Retirement package

  Better than all”

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  Who’s Cool

  Have your sex; drink the beer.

  It will be done in a year.

  Smoke a joint; pop a pill.

  Just make sure you get your fill.

  When you think it over,

  Forget the big clover;

  It brings luck not ever

  Except tar and feather.

  Who’s cool?

  Who’s hot?

  What’s cool?

  What’s not?

  Please do not play the odds

  ‘Less your money is in wads.

  Gossip now; ruin your life.

  Just make sure you like the strife

  Resort to violence

  When you feel turbulence.

  Don’t forget: All is just

  In love and war and trust.

  Who’s cool?

  Who’s hot?

  What’s cool?

  What’s not?

  When you think of what’s cool,

  Does that list include a fool?

  For you know stupidity

  Is not anonymity.

  People mention the name

  Of anyone who’s lame.

  Who’s cool?

  Who is that lame fool?

  What’s cool?

  Fame is not a tool.

  You run and your friend hikes.

  You wake up; reality strikes.

  Like king cobr
a venom;

  It is not yet common

  To see one who knows the way

  Through the maze of today.

  Who’s cool?

  Who is that lame fool?

  What’s cool?

  Fame is not a tool.

  Steer from cool and the fool.

  Don’t go swimming in the pool

  When you know for sure

  That it is unpure.

  Now go search for the One

  Who is called God the Son.

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  Make Me New

  Please help me, God

  Out of this mess of emptiness

  And worthlessness

  Please rescue me

  From this abyss I jumped into

  Please make me new

  O Lord, love me

  And hold me tonight in Your arms

  Shelter me from my past

  And protect me against doubt and despair

  Take away the fear and the shame

  Clear away the rubble and repair

  The foundation of my faith

  Heal the faults and prevent

  Their return

  Reinforce my foundations with

  Faith stronger than I have known

  Build a new temple

  In my heart

  With such strength that

  Nothing can destroy it again

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  Unclean Before You

  I am sinful and unpure

  I am nothing but

  Unclean before You

  I have no hope and no peace

  I have no joy and

  You reach out to me

  “Unfaithful and useless

  You were

  Stained with sin and

  Iniquity

  You are washed in the blood

  Of Christ

  Your filthy soul is

  Now clean and pure”

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  Purify

  Purify

  Purify me

  Purify my heart

  Have mercy upon me O God

  According to Your love for me

  And please wipe the slate clean again

  Wash away the stains on my heart

  Wipe away this dirt inside me

  ‘Cause I know I did something wrong

  I keep seeing it in my head

  And I know I hurt You again

  I was born with an unclean heart

  Into a world that is unpure

  But You want total honesty

  Then You reveal the truth to me

  That I have hidden from myself

  Purge me and I will become clean

  Wash away the dirt in my soul

  Then I will be pure in Your sight

  Make me to hear joy and gladness

  This broken vessel will rejoice

  Lord please hide my sins from Your face

  And blot out my iniquities

  Create a clean heart inside me

  Renew a right spirit in me

  Do not cast me from Your presence

  And take not Thy spirit from me

  Restore the joy of salvation

  Unto my dry and empty soul

  Lord carry me through this valley

  Then I will teach sinners Your ways

  Lord deliver me from myself

  And be my refuge from the storm

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  Worthless

  What have I become

  I feel so worthless

  And useless

  I have no value

  To anyone but You

  I have no strength

  To renew my faith

  I am so weak and