CONFESSION ZERO

(Why don't you believe in Hell?) What's to believe in? --- [Answering a question with a question gives me more time to think of an answer that makes more sense than the question itself.] --- (You're insane! Hell is real, God created it for Lucifer!) That's why YOU believe in Hell, but I have no reason to believe in something that is unGodly. (You believe in Heaven, right?) Yes. (Then you must believe in Hell.) That makes little sense. (How so?) Do you believe that there is only one truth? (Yes.) And what do you call this One Truth? (God.) Then by your own logic God is the only thing that exists. (And what God created.) Why would God create a Hell of eternal damnation? (To punish those that do not believe in Him.) And what purpose could an eternal agony possibly serve? (As a lesson.) Never ending agony cannot be a lesson, it can only serve as punishment without end. (That IS the lesson!) No. That's insanity. © 2016 Ma

Love moves far too many strings like truths that only lies can bring. Tumbling in after the other like acrobats, reaching out by memory to catch the other. The night sounds are in a harmony, answers from a call made long ago in the dark. Dance with one another. Cherish the whole collection. Tote their shadows loosely, without expectation, and let the world heal before the strings grow barbs and reflect something altogether different. Me ~ © 2016 Mark Richard Prime

It doesn't have to be a nightmare Grown down in our life's story Fear holding tight like a noose The more we pull, the less we breathe Cut the garrote, set death free That was long ago, needn't remember By our memorizing it, it will repeat Too much in the past, it can't last We've lost our minds to vile power Time to regroup and create a now A present toward a history of love An echo come round without strings A recall that has no grip on our necks But a now that enlivens our spirits That saves us from our ignorance That smiles on us in the brave echo It doesn't have to be a nightmare Unless we create it for ourselves Set yourself free and join the whole A life worth singing, so rise with me Rise as One love and One peace No division, no suffocation, be done Strength's found in great numbers And none more so than One ~ © 2016 Mark Richard Prime

Love is not merely an emotion It is an indestructible force A thing that never truly dies A constant of life's very core Love knows no boundaries Wall's cannot hold it away No continent goes without it No idea can destroy its sway Love's the true beginning Lifting stars to their throne Aligning the profound mystery Of all things we've ever known It can be made to be ugly Even overshadowed by war And misplaced by man's ire But Love itself is evermore Our own use of it may be finite But within our story it's eternal The building block of all things The verve of nature's pull Some misplace it in their hurry Or displace its pulsing start Yet none have eradicated it Or torn it from the heart Love calls to our better selves It evolves within as itself rising Oh! Had we but Love's fealty We'd never kill another thing ~ © 2016 Mark Richard Prime