[Tin Man]

Tin Man

What have I to offer thee?
I have nothing more than me
No riches nor am I well known
A quiet mien is all I own

A gentle heart is what I bare
In solitude it’s all I wear
Peaceable in all my days
Parsing life’s fickle ways

And what have I to do with thee?
Whose very nature captures me?
Snared by sweet and smiling glances
Whose fair and comely eye entrances

Would that I could be more brave
Like some impudent knave
And win anon the moment’s pause
Despite all my lacking flaws

To speak with undaunted pitch
And break this lasting tongue-tied stitch
To dream of daring chosen words
And risk expressing hopeful chords

But, tell this idle time goodbye
Dreaming of a life gone by
And of a chance I once let slide
Rusting from the rain inside.

Aeglyn Sep’2017

[Christ of Light]

A starry light drapes Him at night
A perfect babe so blessed with life
Came to earth to make all right
To save a dying world from strife

Born in humble poverty
Raised in spirit strong and true
Full of grace and authority
And from His Father, knowledge grew

Finally, His mission came
To pave the road in flawless stride
His Father’s will He would proclaim
To meekly teach and be our guide

The path He walked, the way of light
Just like that shining star at birth
Was meant to lift our hearts and sight
As His atonement proved His worth

So now it is up to us
To follow where He placed His feet
Fulfilling ev’ry need and thus
We’ll find Him at the mercy seat

Who once came down, an infant boy
Whom angels of creation know
Shining there in perfect joy
The Christ of Light in swaddling clothes

Aeglyn Dec 2020
 

[The Fall of Love]

I sit enthralled as sunset dies
The rosy reds of auburn skies
The light washed out in rainbow hues
Drapes me in twilight’s dusty muse

I think of her most oft of late
Of simple ways and subtle traits
A knowing touch, and eyes so calm
Her caring heart a healing balm

I ponder all in heaven’s name
How is my life to be the same?
As nighttime draws I’ve lost that glow
Now left in dark as feelings go

A tear wells up in sullen thought
How we began, now come to naught
In this life only are we done?
Can we in glory still be one?

I think upon that very dream
While in the moonlight’s shining beam
As stars come out, the skies are bright
A hope within me starts tonight.

Aeglyn August 2020
 

[The Plan]

The Plan

At last, it was time to be born
To willingly pass through unknown
I was there, with you, that first morn
Vowed never to leave you alone

We parted and you left in trust
Of the plan we all had agreed
Formed of spirit, water, and dust
With a pledge, my voice you would heed

Others were forced down to earth
Not willing to listen to love
A third who would never be birthed
In Heaven rebelling above

Shadowed by a charming deceit
A son of the morning who fell
Embracing a massive conceit
To drag all to a mis’rable hell

Then into this world you will live
But absent your previous fief
To make your own choices, I give
To face opposition with grief

I promised to help you along
Be with you through all of your trials
Ceaselessly forgiving your wrongs
Embracing all heaven’s exiles

Eventually I will come down
And free all the prisoner’s caught
Lifted up, I will certainly crown
All children my voice who have sought

So brief was my visit on earth
I came down to satisfy laws
To show you all traits of high worth
And enlist you in heavn’ly cause

I give you a higher path option
If you will conceive to believe
And treat each other with caution
All children of Adam and Eve

One day, when life will have ended
Return and report of your deeds
Judgement will then be extended
Based on the fruit of your seeds

I will embrace all the willing
Who chose to do good the long day
To life everlasting fulfilling
The promise to those who obey

Aeglyn May 2020

[Broken Hearts]

His heartfelt blessings full of love
A promised hope of calm and peace
To all honest seekers thereof
In prayers and tears that never cease

I say, my brothers, sisters all
Who, in goodness, still hold trust
But question why they still feel small
And deem are lower than the dust

This meekness draws the eyes of God
Who loves you more than you will know
It’s humility He applauds
Your willingness to let it show

He answers every tear that falls
With care towards your broken fate
He guides you up above the walls
And lifts you to a higher state

Always there, He anxiously awaits
A Parent watching you in stride
For any chance to show His traits
And lead you Home where He abides

Oh then look up and never doubt
About the love He has for you
Pre-destined for a greater route
In your heart of hearts, believe it’s true.

Aeglyn Nov 2019
 

[Celestial son]

Oh whither did you go, my son?
With eyes so bright and blue
A happy spirit sent to us
That bound our hearts to you.

Oh fierce, the pain and emptiness
That misses hugs and smiles
You freely gave us love so pure
It hurt to see your trials.

It grieves my  heart unto this day
I think of you so oft
I know you're placed in Father's care
In Heaven's, wondrous loft.

So cry, do I, these endless tears
Of saddened, painful loss,
But one day we shall meet again
Our paths are sure to cross.

And on that day, beloved son, 
Exquisite joy will swell
And fill our hearts with loving bliss
In clouds where loved ones dwell.

Be my little boy again,
Laugh those joyful sounds
Walk hand in hand with me, my son
Where happy knows no bounds.

-Aeglyn 2012

[Eyes of Light]

How heavy 
My heart is
Missing you
These long, cold
Lonesome days

Sunsets flow
Endlessly
Into one
Bittersweet
Elegy

Cursed with love
Lingering,
Patiently
Suffering
Memories

My lamp primed
The wick dressed
Hope reflects
Eyes of light
In darkness

Aeglyn 
Mar’2019

[Blessed]

So blessed am I
No idea why
But grateful in my prayers

My heart is full
And feels the pull
Of someone list’ning there

On bended knee
I pray to see
Who tends my every care?

And while I sought
The spirit wrought
A sweet and loving air

That by this glow
He let me know
Of me, He is aware

He loves purely
Very surely
This child so full of tares

Aeglyn Dec 2018

[Eve]

Eve

What sweet sentiments
Slithers hence?
Beguiling the Eve
Of mankind’s birth 
The apple’s eye
Partakes of wisdom’s ire
And death stalks
The garden lost

So dust to dust
A life forfeit
For knowledge gained 
And naivety maimed
Redeemed in time
By meridian’s mandate
To slay the innocent
Virtue of love and grace

Peace, be unto you
My brothers all
For we shall see anon
With clearer eyes
And wiser hearts
Our Mother’s choice
Through ancient days
In godly walk.

Aeglyn August 2017

[The Sheep]

The Sheep

Have you fed the hungered?
Given drink to thirsty souls?
Taken in a stranger?
That left a brother whole?

Have you clothed the naked?
Attended to the sick?
Visited the prisoner?
Compassionate and quick?

For as much as you do this
According to the Light
You have done it unto me
He saith to the right

And blessed are ye brothers
Who unto the least of these
Do without thought of pay
Charity, that Father sees

Then onto life eternal
The righteous life’s reward
For unto all who acted 
Then will mercy be restored.

Aeglyn June 2017

[Come follow me]

“Come follow me”
He simply said
“Walk where I walk
Be where I’ve led”

 

Enter the grounds
Kneel where He knelt
Plead with your God
Feel what He felt

 

You need not bleed
From every pore
You need not bear
The weight He bore

 

Just bear a piece
And feel the price
For suffering
And sacrifice

 

Move up the hill
Towards the top
Where crosses stood
The path here stops

 

You need not hang
Upon your hands
You need but live
And take a stand

 

And offer thanks
To Him who paid
In full the cost
For all He made.

 

“Come follow me”
Indeed He pled
Learn of me that
My light will spread.

 

Aeglyn 30 Apr 2017

[Revelation]

Revelation

My mind is full of light
The lens which passes sight
Focused on a single spot
An inspired perfect thought.

Glory is a glance
An enlightened trance
Lifted up to blazing Grace
Of love and light embraced

Eyes that see now will know
The source from which all blessings flow
Understanding leaps all bounds
When revelation expounds

Aeglyn Jan 2017
 

[Briny depths]

Briny depths

How warm the tears, descending
So salty and sublime
Yet bitter in their marrow
Still, a healing anodyne

It’s purely lucid essence
Bubbles out a plea
And pools of limpid sorrow
Are near engulfing me

No skinny-dipping plunges
In the depths of my remorse
No dredging in the shallows
Will impel it to come forth

But gentle swells of kindness
Like a sea around a shore
Love cresting all about me
Now opens up a door

Feelings I can’t fathom
Unceasingly contend
They ebb and flow eternal
I’m uncertain to what end

So bathe me in the wallows
Submerged in my despair
Until tear stained waters clarify
While drenched in fervent prayer.

 

Aeglyn Dec 2016

[“What I dare”]

I dare to stand apart,
My values held in heart
In mind and in strength
Not that of mortal man
But in the strength of my God
My light, my world, my all.
The center of my being
And all I possess in talents,
Blessings and experiences
The good with the bad
I learn to choose wisely.

In service to my God,
My family, my brothers
And sisters everywhere.
Children of a loving Father,
A royal family forever
Blazing our way back together
For all seekers of truth
He beckons the narrow path
That leads to everlasting love
Joy, and happiness eternal.

Embraced in peace
I obey the promptings 
Of the spirit, and act
With kindness and charity 
And hope 
For what life brings
To this end, was I born
Into the twilight of ignorance
Amid all the myriad paths offered
To find the one and only true way
Home.

Aeglyn Oct 201

[Did I ever know love?]

Did I ever know love?
As it was meant to be?
Did I ever act giddy?
Or go weak in the knees?

 

Did I ever know peace?
In just knowing you’re there?
A warm comfort in winter
A soft wisp of your hair.

 

Did I ever feel happy?
And feel home where you were?
A low smoky fire
Where time is a blur.

 

Did I ever know love?
And all it could be?
Yes, I can answer
But it never knew me.

 

Aeglyn July 2016

[Rescue]

“Rescue”

 

Where are all the children?

So helpless in the pitch

Sunken into furrows

Scratching every itch.

 

They quail at their status

Left hopelessly adrift

Fearing what next will come

And praying it is swift

 

Will you mark their absence?

Rescue them from death?

Will you shine your candle?

Encourage with your breath?

 

Or will you warm indiff’rence?

Around a fire bright?

And never brave the darkness

To save who’s lost the light?

 

Be bold, oh fearful children

When stepping out the door

Remember our own rescue

And the weight of love He bore

 

He searches for you special

A voice to call us in

Just before the lights go out

No matter where you’ve been

 

So, head on Home rejoicing

Who are called in from the night

Embraced in welcome smiles

Where love and warmth invite.

 

Aeglyn June 2016

 

[Blue eyes]

“Blue eyes”

When I lay this mortal down

To fester in the earth

I pray kindly tears are shed

Mute testaments of worth

 

All my days of grieving

And all my days in pain

Suffered so in silence

Pray hope was not in vain.

 

I have tried my best

Feeling out my way

Trusting in God’s mercy

Kneeling oft to pray

 

I know I’m not perfect

Or known for greater deeds

It’s the little things I treasure

Helping those in need

 

But, often I am left alone

Struggling with my life

Enduring weary quiet times

Searching answers to this strife.

 

If I have done you harm

Spoken or in deed

I plead for your forgiveness

In peace, let’s be agreed

 

I hope to live so quietly

And go as I arrived

With nothing less than wonder

Recaptured in blue eyes.

 

Aeglyn June 2016

[Creation]

"Creation"

Peering through the arch of time
I see eternity unfold
Past the shining stars sublime
To worlds without end untold

I can see into forever
Gifted with celestial sight
All of Father’s endeavors
The glory of creation’s height

Take a moment to realize
What is vast to comprehend
What we often theorize
How is it we transcend?

Surely there is power here
The puissant tokens shown
Testifies of love so dear
Whispers ‘you are not alone’.

That thought brings me tears
As I muse infinity
Chasing all my mortal fears
With the splendor of divinity.

Aeglyn April 2013

[The Garden]

The Garden

 

While His friends slept on their watch

One lonely calm, eventful night

He knelt in prayer for none too few

To drink the bitter dregs come due

To save us from our dying plight.

 

To Father, pled this perfect Son,

For all our sakes above His own

In trembling awe He raised the flask

And willingly performed the task

A weight so great caused Him to groan.

 

From every pore He bled our pain

For us, His brothers, sisters love

That we, through Him, are then made free

From death and hell’s eternal fee

To Eden’s promised path above.

 

Remember noble Brother’s deed

Beyond all the mind conceives

If we but remember Him

Say a prayer or sing a hymn

And honor Him whom we believe.

 

Aeglyn Mar’2016

[Eternal]

"Eternal"

They scoff at all the whispers
From beyond the misty veil
Gleaning unrequited rumors
Against which unbelievers flail.

 

‘There is only nothingness’
‘No life unending bliss’
‘No heaven’s cloudy castles’
‘Or burning pitch in hell’s abyss’

 

The final silence all endure
Once the puppet strings are cut
But who was the puppeteer?
That made our bodies strut?

 

There is a simple answer
For the animate in us
We are supernal spirits
Inside this mortal fuss

 

Like a hand inside a glove
Once removed is still a hand
But there’s no longer impetus
When it’s no longer manned.

 

And whither do our natures go
Now separate and free
The vessel it once habitates
Will surely cease to be

 

So somewhere they are gathered
Spirits light and aeriform
Waiting for fulfillment
To be renewed in perfect form

 

The whispers we are hearing,
If you consider such a thing,
Could be just a living soul
Free of pain and on the wing.

 

Aeglyn March 201

 

[Greater faith]

‘Greater faith’

It takes assertive courage
To step out into space
And bravely walk undaunted
To our waiting Lord’s embrace

Across the tempest waters
Rising up in adverse throes
Fix your gaze upon His love
Nothing doubting as you go

Walk not slowly staggering
But quicken’d in thy pace
Calm the angry enmity
That forbids you from His grace

And lest the wild swells arise
And swallow up thy soul
Never turn thine eyes from Him
In whom ever was our goal.

Aeglyn
March 2016

["Sealed fates"]

"Sealed fates"

Somewhere inside,
Where heartaches reside,
I remember how love used to feel.

Those memories aside,
It’s a pain that’s implied,
And something I’ve tried to conceal.

But If I truly confide,
These feelings denied,
I pray that my heart will heal.

Then I must decide,
If I can abide,
What your touch will truly reveal.

My love then untied,
Our fates may collide,
Embraced, and lovingly sealed.

Aeglyn
Feb 2016

[Wander lost]

So far from home

These wandering soles

Long days do I roam

My road full of holes.

 

Wary of the gloam

Worn from these strolls

So far from home

These wandering soles

 

What have I become?

With love on parole

Fearing the outcome

No heart for the tolls

So far from home

These wandering soles

 

Aeglyn 2014 

[Angels of Mercy]

Angels of Mercy

 

Whispered in our ears
Ere the moment of our birth
‘Return one hundred years
After living on this earth’

 

Some may live much longer
Some may live far less
Some are just born stronger
With some born in excess

 

Some are born in poverty
Though some achieve success
Some have earned their liberty
While some still are oppressed

 

But those who are born meeker
Have learned what true love brings
Though experiences were bleaker
They have learned to use their wings

 

These angels are among us
Each and every single day
They normally don’t raise a fuss
For service is their way

 

If you should have a special need
Concede it unto God
Whose loving Spirit moves with speed
To, these waiting angels, prod

 

So when our time is surely come
And all our deeds be known
We’ll know who spoke with angels’ tongue
Beneath our Father’s throne.

 

Then a query in our ears
Ere the moment of our death
‘How well have you spent your years?
While you lived with borrowed breath?’

 

The answer you accord
To this question is profound
Were you an angel for the Lord?
While you were on the ground?

 

I pray the God of Glory
Sees within your life's parade
A sweet angelic story
Full of charity conveyed.

 

 

Aeglyn April 2015

[The Last Teddy Bear]

The Last Teddy Bear

 

A troop of sadly sent bears
An adorable soothing display
Testaments of sorrowful prayers
Arranged like a golden bouquet

 

Of every size we possessed 
Large and small we lovingly gave
The ache in our hearts was suppressed
Left sleeping in peace at the grave

 

The children left smiling with gifts
The sad tokens of love that day
Our spirits felt the sweet lift
That ended our day the right way

 

But oh, one teddy bear left
I withheld it fearing the pain
Reserved for feeling bereft
My need for a keepsake so plain

 

Over the years I've been blessed
With many a squeeze for my grief
I loan him to family when stressed
To soothe them when needing relief

 

So old my companion and I
Still on my heartstrings he tugs
Whenever I feel like a cry
He’s there with unlimited hugs.

 

Aeglyn April 2015