Carrying the instrument of your own death
Jeering crowds spitting and taunting as you go
Forgive them Father for they know not what they do
Cried with sincerity for these misguided souls
Even in this ultimate humiliation
Your faith never faltered
And by that we have been saved
…How could you not love Him
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Show me man’s kindness
Show me man’s humanity
In spite of himself
I’m not sure it’s possible
With the evil he commits
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Today He did rise
As foretold by the Bible
Many years ago
Still the lesson hasn’t been learned
Refusing to live in love
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Broken is the heart of man
When love is buried in sand
Sand of adultery–quick
Sinking romance like a brick
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Lost in passion mind is numb
Leaving wearer blind and dumb
Oldest fault–a mortal sin
Badge of shame in human skin
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
At this joyous time of the year
Venerated throughout these many centuries,
Are not earthly goods transacted without thought to the season,
Raising questions of greed and desire?
Is this not the poignant warning
Charles Dickens ghosts so eloquently foretold?
Evil lives in the seven deadly sins.
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Fraught with danger this daily walk,
As hand-in-hand we battle the foe.
Through foolish acts and foolish talk,
Into the darkness hence we go.
Faith–What faith we question still,
As answers yield no answers forth.
On hands and knees we climb the hill;
The devil tempts our mortal worth.
O’ the struggle, eternal test,
We try yet fail more oft’ than not.
Attempt as we may to do our best
It ends in sin and soul filled rot.
Yet for all our faults and feelings of loss
We’re assured of life through death on the cross.
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
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 ~~
Monsters and demons
Hide inside each one of us
Life of denial
Scared to face our deepest selves
Afraid of what we might see
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Pride
A sin
So deadly
Corrupting heart
And corrupting soul
Showing ones arrogance
The father of all others
Giving birth to six progeny
In spite of being self-absorbed
Plaguing this world for eternity
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Life’s greatest rewards
Friendship, love, marriage, children
So easily lost
Succumbing to deadly sin
Destroys all that we treasure
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
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