Broken Pieces by Tapuwa Bari (free e books to read online .TXT) 📖

Broken Pieces

Tears rolled down my right cheek

Ignoring the make up that was on fleek

At that very moment,

I had searched all over for a solution

But only a pollution

Of doubt was available

Just like the roundabout

That God made for the Israelites

When they wandered for forty years.

A quiet still voice clearer than ever

Then spoke in my distance

"I am your strength and song"

It said to me.

Before I knew it

A strong breeze

Pierced right through my cold heart

And left it into broken pieces

Then just like a flash

There were no more traces

Of the broken pieces

But there was another bash

And an overwhelming power

Crowded my entire body.

I fell down to my knees

And just like that,

I stood up still like a tower

That will never tire.

"And now I am in you and you are in me"

 

I Am Not Alone

A phase that I

Would meditate on

Day in, day out

But my question was

Did I have enough revelation

Or was I in relation

To what it means

For I would chase it

In times of lost and fear

But in times when people were near

I would push away His hand

Since I was no longer in tear.

As my mind jingled to this,

Whilst walking home

I took the shortcut to the dorm

Where I stayed.

With the sun roasting

On my beautiful skin

And my earphones plugged in

An unfamiliar presence

Rushed past me,

In a blink of an eye

A charcoal black hand

Dragged me down

To the ends of the world

"Let me go”

Was my cry

As I then saw a sharp knife

  

Piercing right through my precious Life

My eyes closed

And I retraced the same words

"I am not alone".

And inside of me a fire began to burn

A fire that was intimacy

And screamed for mercy.

My eyes shut open

And I realized that a fire surrounded me.

But this fire was not just any fire

But a fire that lifted me up

And did not burn anything up

I then looked up

As the clouds raced across

The sky and smiled

For it was then I realized

That I had gotten the revelation

And I was now in relation

To this phase

"I am not alone"

Choices

The smoke covered my eyes

And blocked my vision,

As if I still had any

While my mind kept racing,

Creating frightening fantasies,

That only destroyed my realities

I couldn’t breathe,

I couldn’t think,

I couldn’t feel.

I felt paralyzed,

Drained,

Exhausted,

But from what was my question?

Many asked

What happened to your soul?

What happened to your spirit?

But I was as clueless

As them.

As more gathered to see my shame,

I became more ashamed.

For I knew this old self

Had to wear away,

For the new to awake.

 

For awhile,

 I had been lost,

In my own problems

Created fake illusions,

That this world

Would give me what I want

Yet I was the one to give it

What it needs.

So now my choice was between

The world

And the word

Of God,

For the world

Seemed to pass away

But the word of God

Remained the same forever.

The Word was God

And was the same

In the beginning

With God

All things were made by him

Exempting nothing

It was the life,

The life which is the light of men,

It was the light,

The light that darkness

Could not comprehend,

It was the freedom

The freedom I was searching for

It was the truth,

The truth that will liberate my soul

   And it was the grace,

The grace that will build me up

It was peace

Peace, that surpasses all understanding

It was Jesus

The one who gave me a new name.

Hope Delayed

A cry,

For removal of scales

From our eyes

The pain from

Our bleeding souls

So lost, we are in this world

Of indifference

Comparison,

What ifs,

A language so familiar

To our lips

I can’t,

A message,

The voice

In our minds

Hope deferred

Hearts sickening,

Yearning

For good medicine

To sweeten the soul,

To lighten the blacken valleys

Where our feet

Have walked.

A twisted time

We are in,

Where Confusion,

Clouding of consciousness,

Has left

The spirit deserted,

Grieved,

Falsely arrested,

When blamed for the

Choices we have made.

The power

Misused,

A life

So selfish inspired

No longer aspiring

But respiring

Toxic conversations,

Friendships, relationships

Limiting

The evolution

Of our minds.

Godfidence

I have Godfidence that through Him

My life will never be so dim

I have Godfidence that it is no longer about me

But about His wonderful Son t hat gave me a home

A home of sanity

A home of peace

A home of Joy

A home of blessings

A home of revival

I have Godfidence that character is better

Than reputation

Because i am like a mutation

With change burning inside of me.

I have Godfidence that when Jesus said it is done

He meant it

And with Him we are seen as one

One as in Him in me and me in Him

One as in when He prays I pray

One as in where He goes I go

One as in what He says I say

One as in who He loves I love

One as in nothing can ever separate us!

Love of God

Love of God

Is unending

And never fading

It reminds you of

The Father's love 

To see us back in His arms again

That is

The day of Redemption

Where all our temptations

Persuasions, situations

Where placed on the feet

Of the one who is called Love!

Love of God is

Free Of charge

And incomparable

And Just like the parable

of the Good Samaritan

Love of God

Is that love

That makes you

Love a brother

Love a sister

Love an enemy

Love your loved ones

Love a friend

Love a neighbor

 

Love of God

Is 1st Corinthians 13

And not Friday the 13

Listen.

What I am trying to say

Is that ;

Love is not fear

But love is fearless,

It holds

No grudges

It knows no failure,

It knows no color, race, religion

No class, no past, no future

No doing, no achievements

No favorites, no confusion

No boundaries

You name it.

But it knows one thing

The power of the Cross.

Secret Place

Quintessence of ineffable calmness

When I dwelled in this spacious place

I now call the "secret place".

A place i have started to know more about Him

Like the back of my palm.

A place of Life

That is so meaningful

And that makes me thrive.

A place where everything he is, is exuded.

A place I can now boldly say

I am no longer shaken by the storms

That have placed thousands in tombs

Because of what my eyes have seen,

His revealed glory!