If the walls could speak..

Walls with words

Look! you live in a fortress

with stone walls built up high

the workmanship is old

the roof lets in the sky

there is treasure in the mortar

if it all falls in

the slightest gap a way

for new life to begin

a record of your past

lies hidden here within

the mansion in the sky

is quite unlike these walls

Its Caretaker welcomes you and I

and would never let it fall.

“Everlasting Rock”

Companions on the Journey

I don’t have the strength to carry

I’ll walk beside, stride and leap

I’ve been up this way before

and I know the path is steep

If the darkness overwhelms you

take comfort in One and all

who are ready here to steady you

and would hate to see you fall.

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The higher up the mountain, the more treacherous the path.

Jud24

Verse picture source

Coal River Valley

cold dark hard stone / compressed ages / crazy love / diamond shine.

Piled dry parched / under barren sky / delinquint spark rests / beside ignite.

Illuminable reside / rest surrender / hide.

Fuel pile high / heavy dry / coerce embers / elated fly.

Buried ash Wednesday / live breathe / fanned funneled / exalted hearth high.

Relentless Westerly / battered antique bones / breathe weary / rugged stone hill.

Shines its testament / from stain glass sill / to living room throne / cast iron will.