i used to declaim this piece when i was in high school. Hope it will also touch your lives...






VENGEANCE IS NOT OURS, IT'S GOD'S!!!

Alms...., alms...., alms…. spare me a piece of bread…. spare me your mercy…. I am a child so young, so thin, and so ragged.

Why are you staring at me? With my eyes I cannot see, but I know that you are all staring at me! Why are you whispering to one another? Why? Do you know my mother? Do you know my father? Did you know me five years ago? Yes..., five years of bitterness had passed. I can still remember the vast happiness mother and I shared with father. It was one lovely evening. My father was sitting in his big chair in the sala. My mother was playing on the piano, and I for them. We were very happy indeed.

Suddenly, five loud knocks were heard at the door, and a deep silence ensued. Did the soldiers discover our peaceful home? Mother ran to my father’s side, pleading, “please luis, hide in the cellar, there is the cellar. They cannot find you there”. I pulled my father’s arm, but he did not move. HE embrace mother and me. Took us protectively in his loving arms.

The door went “banggggg”, and before us five ugly beasts came barging in. “Are you Captain Luis Santos?,” roared the ugliest of them all. “Yes,” said my father. “You are under arrest,” said one of the beasts. They pulled father roughly away from us. Father wasn't even given a chance to bid us goodbye. We followed them mile after mile, we were hungry and thirsty. We saw a group of soldiers eating and drinking. Oh, how our mouths watered seeing the delicious fruits they were eating. Then suddenly, we heard a familiar voice calling, At first, it was loud and clear. then fainter.. fainter.. fainter.. “..... Consueloooooo ….. Sisasaa ….. Consuelooooo ….. Sisaaaaa ….. Consueloooooo ….. Sisaaaaa …..!!!."

We ran towards the direction of the voice, but it was too late. We saw father hanging on a tree……… dead………. Oh, it was terrible!!!. He had been dreadfully tortured before he was been killed….., and I cried vengeanceee...!!!, vengeanceee...!!!, vengeanceeee...!!! Everything went black. The next thing I knew I was nursing my poor invalid mother.

One day, we heard the church bell ringing, “dinggggg..., donggggg..., dinggggg..., donggggg!” It was a sign for us to find a shelter in our hiding place, but I could not leave my invalid mother, I tried to show her the way to the hideout. Suddenly, bombs started falling; airplanes were roaring overhead..., canyons were firing from everywhere ..… booommm!!! booommm!!! booommmmmm!!! Mother was hit, her legs were shattered into pieces. I took her gently in my arms and cried, “I’ll have vengeanceee!!!, vengeanceee!!!” “No, Sisa, vengeance is not ours….. it is God’s,” said mother. I was like a pent up volcano. “Vengeance is mine not God’s”. “No, Sisa, vengeance is not ours, it’s God’s”. These were the words from my mother before she died. Mother was dead and I was blind. Vengeance is not ours? To forgive is divine, but vengeance is sweeter!

That was five years ago, five years ….. aaalllmmmsss..., aaalllmmmsss..., aaalllmmmsss..., spare me a piece of bread. Spare me your mercy. I am a child so young, so thin, so poor, and so ragged. Vengeance is not ours..., it is God’s... it’s God’s….. it’s God's….

MY PRECIOUS ONE

Your innocent eyes
Are the windows of my dying hopes
Your sweet smiles
Is the lamp upon my too dark road
Your warmth embrace
Envelopes the coldness of my frozen heart
And your voices are the music
Into my stumble heart

You have been a good fighter
All throughout your younger years
You have been courageous enough
To explore new different things
Your curiosity makes me glad
And also makes me think
Will it be enough
To satisfy your unwanted fears?

I know someday
You’ll grow up as gorgeous lady
Ask questions about life
On what and how it will go to be
Seek for answers
From all of your curiosities
But for now I will let you be
My innocent baby

You are my precious gift
Given by our mighty God
You are a wonderful blessing
For my unsatisfied heart
You are the right answers
To all of my undying questions
And you are my one true angel
Who saved my dying soul

I love you my precious one
And I thank God for you had come
For you had given me
An enlighten lyrics for the hymn of my heart
You made my blind eyes see
The wonders of this crazy world
And you had given me reasons
To live even more

Ray of light be upon us
As we travel the road of life..
Innocence of your smile will make us through
Now and forever until the road ends
Endless love will make it happen..

>:)

MOVING ON

I am moving on
reaching toward my hopes and dreams
It has taken me far too long
to reach this place, it seems

My fears may try to hold me back
To try and block my way
But with courage and faith in my heart
I will get there come what may

The road will be a long one,
And it may be rocky, too
But when I reach this place in time,
My dreams could all shine through

I am coming nearer to my goals
And my excitement grows
The plans I have made will soon be real
Along with the destiny I chose

Though I have been tossed and turned in life's storms
I will surely see a brighter dawn
I'm no longer held back by my fears
I'm finally....Moving On

by Alan Murray

THE CRY OF MY HEART

I wish I could go back to those times I have you
Where I can hold you tight and never slip you through
I wish I could go back to those days I can hug you
So I could tell you how much I really love and missed you

Holding my hands in a grip always makes me think
Wishing and hoping that you’re filling up those spaces just a bit
Wandering from that moment you’ll safe my heart to keep
But then again my wanders always gives me a little shrink

I used to sigh when I reminisce those days
When you’re still there, standing in my way
That you're waiting for me, to come home and stay
But then when I stand by you, you already turned your back and walked away

You used to walk with me, in times I am in trouble
You used to hold my hands, to keep me safe from sorrow
You used to laugh with me; at times I am in pain
But now I’m doing it all alone, with no one to comfort me from pain

We used to have those special connections
Like we always have this deeper compassion
But as you turned your back and walked away from home
You’d found this compassion with someone who had this deeper affection

It really hurts me badly
To see you with someone who can make you safe and stay
But if that will really makes you happy
I’ll keep my tears in the rain
Just to see you smiling in your shinning trail

I know someday the sun will shine above me
And when that happens, I’ll be standing like a tree
And I know that God will allow me to see
The real beauty of my own prairie

I may have dried up because of the summer
Fallen leaves will be seen beneath because of the fall
Frozen roots caused by the winter season
But I’ll still be a firm tree when spring comes along

>:)

A POEM FOR AN ANGEL

There was an angel i once knew
An angel with hopes and dreams i view
An angel with gladness an never feel blue
But now his in the shadow of sadness en in the shade of blue

I know someday i can see you smile
And spread again your wings so high above the sky
And when that happens I'll raise my head above for you
And proud to say that you make i through

Just stand up my precious angel
Just soar high 'til you reach the end
The race is not yet over, this is not yet the end
Just be strong and let your wings spread again

The Lord is reaching out His hands to you
Just hold it tight and never slip it trough
God is good and He will carry you through
From the shadow of your sadness and your shade of blue

I know someday God will make it happen
That all your worries He will put into end
Just trust Him fully and never let Him go
For He will teach you the things you never know

Just be strong
And be courageous
Your battle is not yet over
End is yet too far
Light is always at the end of everything

>:)