Exodus of the Behemoth

Beware the mighty behemoth of likened stature

Be strong in deference to the milk that feeds vacuum

Hang the jaw that once stood proud in plaster

Be firm in such gray dreams that lay in ashes

Memories so faintly apparent crack in aberrance

Lurid Augustus so enflamed by your own nectar

How strange the Kosdok that pains to hear distant thunder

Empty peals, failed empty peals

The great western empire of shades and fumes

Masked by aggrandized shadows hidden from the crumbling keep proper

They revel in the reflected radiance of so many gilded levees

The shattered whisper reaches their communal psyche, should they heed it?

Come back dear children, return hence to your glorious lore

Seize the gateway with rusted soul raise up Saint Rocks fallen capstone

Empty Peals, failed empty peals

Down the choked riverbed the confluence of collective conscience

No one answers the westward wind with eyes under siege by envy

Foul proud people what god will answer your atheist edict?

Miracles always reached for with a hope mouthed in apathetic hypocrisy

Behold the admiral will only marshal Pyrrhic that fall day

Onlookers and gawkers will answer the clarion when the behemoth shudders

A witness will not be found when the great eyes perfect focus

From dank earthen mounds the sleeper will be awaken

They will muster at the clay feet of the east facing monster

By the first call to arms they will be soothed by foreign alms

Hunger for medium will render them dust on the feet of the powerful

To the ancient hills the behemoth will descend to await a jubilee

A year when the bonfires will rage in the hollows and the ox goad will find grip

A vassal to Jacobs grapple charged with violence and predestined to restore

The Holy Convict

Conviction. The undeniable feeling that some deep held belief is wrong or on the fast train there. Or is it more? I guess deep held does not always qualify. I also suppose that conviction is not always a feeling. Would anyone argue though that conviction does not indeed convict? Its more than a semantic observation. Many times do we not allow convictions to enact the change that they need to. We have to allow conviction to actually take hold and cause change. How often I feel the tinge of guilt that this thing is wrong take a quick sidelong glance and ponder the implications and then merrily move on. Acting on convictions then is the moral here. But then again can there be conviction without morals? A few thoughts on conviction

-Many times convictions are not going to be popular. They will not be popular to those around you, those with the power, and most of all with yourself. They will seem superfluous to our often over-simplified lives. Sometimes it takes an outside catalyst so that the gnawing doubt that you may have had that such a thing was wrong finally finds its legs by a certain song or sermon of great weight.

-Convictions are the products of a well-reviewed body of virtues and morals. As a Christian I am blessed with a time tested and blessed foundation. The key though is to often review these edicts and commands so that our convictions are not whispers of some virtue that has found dust in our minds. Clean them off and they will reflect all the stronger when the light of action strikes them. If we do not understand the place from whence our convictions come then the convictions which we need will not strike the deep blow. Although it sounds quite painful and uncomfortable we must want the sting of conviction to be a killing shot. I mean that whatever truth we have allowed to rust or ordained fight that we have retreated from must be mortally wounded when conviction springs to the fray.

-We must act on our convictions. This is dangerous territory. The line is fine between conviction and folly based on fear or evil. The point above though gives us the answer. We must know from where our convictions radiate. If true sin is the byproduct of an apparent conviction then we can safely assume that it was not a conviction at all. I say true sin because often we have allowed the principalities and dogma of the world to dictate to us a new class of sin that truly is not so. Some would have told Martin Luther that he was sinning greatly by protesting the great wrongs of the pontiff. Many stood against Paul when he sought out to work amongst the Gentiles. Do not allow sin as defined by our cultural and that is not found amongst Gods revelation to jade you. Once again as seen in the first observation many times conviction will not win you popularity but then again for what are we living for in the first place? God or country? Cost or comfort? Reality or relevance? Conviction or a world that oddly seems to move and churn without you?