Illness…religion
One thing brings out the other
Prayers for better health
Sickness shows the frailty
That only Heaven can cure
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Tag Archives: frailty
Does Shedding Of Tears (Tanka)
Does shedding of tears
Show a man’s human weakness
How sad the question
Emotional detachment
Dictated by our culture
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
I Lay Prone
I lay prone before God,
Am I worthy of the gift he offers?
I have done nothing to deserve his graces,
His mercy, his saving, especially from myself.
I do not change, I am sinful as I was born to be,
As we were born to be by our father and mother.
Adam and Eve cursed me to a lifetime of sin,
Simply by their failure to obey,
Failure to obey their hunger and thirst for understanding.
This is where it all began,
The anger, the hatred, the intolerance,
This is where the eternal struggle began,
Of good and evil, Heaven and Hell, I bow before it,
Afraid of what I am and what I will become if I fail to comply.
I wander from one phase of mortal understanding to another
Though in the end, I find that I understand nothing.
I am but a grain of sand embodied in ignorance,
Destined to wander this earth searching for answers
Answers that have laid dormant within me,
But I was too frail to see.
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Goodbye to a Fickle Friend
I’ve blamed you for my failures
My lack of progress and time
I’ve blamed you for my regrets
Even before I knew you
Denial is such a fickle friend
Used as a crutch to discredit one’s shortcomings
This is nothing more than a charade
A game I have played for a lifetime
A look inside bore the reflection of truth
It was me all along
My own worst enemy
Incessant procrastination has held me back
Over-thinking every minute detail has crippled me
Accomplishments lay out of reach to no one else’s fault
It was never you at blame for my failures
Nor my lack of progress or time
Regrets were never realized through you
I have deflected my imperfections long enough
The mirror has parlayed a harsh reality
Leaving me exposed to the frailty that has been the catalogue of my life
With eyes splayed wide, the path before me is clear
Freeing me to pursue all that I’ve spent a lifetime avoiding out of fear
For this I am forever grateful to you
In spite of me
~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~
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