The Snooker Hunter

Huddled together
They rest on the green
As he creeps, crouches
Looking down the barrel of his gun
Checking all angles
Ready to canon
He fires the white
Then victory awaits
He makes his break
As he tears the reds apart
And devours the game

I am

I am yours
I am your child
I am your daughter

I am broken

I am complete

I am a lost sheep

I am found

I am dead to sin
I am alive in you

I am unique

I am accepted
I am not forgotten
I am engraved on the palms of your hands

I am your apprentice

I am dependent
I am chosen

I am your bride

I am your hands

        your feet
        your voice

I am your messenger

I am your servant

I am your friend
I am a new creation

I am your ore, for purification
Clay in the potter's hands

I am on fire

I am healed

I am imperfect

I am forgiven

I am forgiving

I am scarlet

I am washed white as snow

I am a traveller

I am a home for your spirit

I am a vapour
I am a tiny rain drop
        making giant ripples in the ocean

I am a fading flower

I am in your true vine
I am a follower of the great I AM

I am yours

Haiku - Sacrifice

Sanguine bleeding sky
His true sacrificial love
Perfuses the earth

Helicopters

Belfast you break my heart
Fire and smoke suffocate our hopes
While sirens serenade us as we sleep
And helicopters rumble through
The sobbing skies who watch over
Remembering what they've seen before
And watching it happen again

Haiku - Rebirth

A new day is born

Yellow yoke cracking the skies

Feeding life to earth

Skin-deep

Uncomfortable skin

Clinging
Wet with tears
Clambering
Trying to get out
Clumsy
But so articulate
Actress
Dressed for the show