Poetry
Poetry
By Glen Brereton Jr.
Copyright Glen Brereton Jr.
Table of Contents
Vessel
The Abyss
Who Can
Pardon
Who’s Cool
Make Me New
Unclean Before You
Purify
Worthless
Who Stole My Heart
Self-Deception
A Useful Vessel
Dear Mr. Atheist
My Soul Longs
My Soul Weeps
Bless Our Troops
Mercy
Faith
Memories of You
Fall the Tears
Please
Praying Mantis
When the Sun Rises
When the Sun Rises in the Sky
Send Me
Wasting My Time
I Failed Again
Seeking Inspiration
Doubt, Fear, Love
To Whomever It May Concern
Author Bio
Vessel
How can You love me
After all that I’ve done?
How can You use me
When I am exhausted?
Why would You want me
When I’m weak and broken?
How could You forgive?
What kind of love permits
A thorough cleansing
Of my hard heart and mind?
I struggle through doubt
And I reach out in faith.
God if You are real:
Reveal Yourself to me,
Purge my hardened heart,
Renew my filthy mind,
Show me how to love,
And make me transparent
So Your love shines through
This small vessel of Yours.
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The Abyss
Pull me from within
The big black abyss
That I have fallen
Into its vastness
I have fallen from Your grace
And I cannot see Your face
Bring me back to Your presence
Then restore my faithfulness
Bring me back to You
I cannot survive
Away from You
Let me not succumb
To the voice of death
I hear beckon
Darkness covers me
Like a wool blanket
And I cannot see
From underneath it
I have fallen from Your grace
And I cannot see Your face
Bring me back to Your presence
Then restore my faithfulness
Bring me back to You
I cannot survive
Away from You
Let me not succumb
To the voice of death
I hear beckon
You will never escape my grasp
Stronger than the bite of an asp
As the darkness tackles you
You begin to see through
The ignorance that surrounds you
Like the juice in a stew
I call out in vain
You cannot hear me
As I scream in pain
And fall to my knees
I had fallen from Your grace
And I will not see Your face
Now give me my consequence
That’s in store for my faithlessness
Take me back to death
I cannot survive
Away from You
You let me succumb
To the voice of death
I heard beckon
Quicker than lightning
You lit up my world
While I was whining
Your grand plan unfurled
Brought back to You
I will survive
Next to You
I did not succumb
To the voice of death
I heard beckon
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Who Can
You search for a savior
Someone to rescue you
You need a great healer
Someone to mend your wound
You long for forgiveness
Someone to pardon you
You need a friendly hand
To wipe away your tears
You’re seeking a soul mate
A sympathetic ear
To comfort you
I know who can save
I know who can heal you
I know who will forgive
And who will comfort you
He will give you peace
He will give you joy
He will give you life
He will shower you
With mercy and grace
Who can save you
The Messiah
Who can heal you
The lamb of God
Who can wash away your sin
Who can make you whole again
Jesus the Christ
The Son of God
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Pardon
I woke up one day
Inside my cell
When to my surprise
The warden stood
Adjacent to me
Wondering what
Was going on now
I tried to speak
“Please let me explain”
The warden said
“Last night I received
A fax for you
The President has
Just granted you
A complete pardon
The slates are clean
The records are burned
If you decide
To accept this gift
If you refuse
Then the deal is off”
“Is this a joke?”
I asked him still shocked
He told me “No”
“Here is your copy
Do you accept?”
“Yes” I screamed with joy
Then I asked him
“What do I do now?
I have no job
No home to go to”
“The President
Has asked you to work
For Him right now
A guaranteed job
And a big house
Retirement package
Better than all”
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Who’s Cool
Have your sex; drink the beer.
It will be done in a year.
Smoke a joint; pop a pill.
Just make sure you get your fill.
When you think it over,
Forget the big clover;
It brings luck not ever
Except tar and feather.
Who’s cool?
Who’s hot?
What’s cool?
What’s not?
Please do not play the odds
‘Less your money is in wads.
Gossip now; ruin your life.
Just make sure you like the strife
Resort to violence
When you feel turbulence.
Don’t forget: All is just
In love and war and trust.
Who’s cool?
Who’s hot?
What’s cool?
What’s not?
When you think of what’s cool,
Does that list include a fool?
For you know stupidity
Is not anonymity.
People mention the name
Of anyone who’s lame.
Who’s cool?
Who is that lame fool?
What’s cool?
Fame is not a tool.
You run and your friend hikes.
You wake up; reality strikes.
Like king cobra
venom;
It is not yet common
To see one who knows the way
Through the maze of today.
Who’s cool?
Who is that lame fool?
What’s cool?
Fame is not a tool.
Steer from cool and the fool.
Don’t go swimming in the pool
When you know for sure
That it is unpure.
Now go search for the One
Who is called God the Son.
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Make Me New
Please help me, God
Out of this mess of emptiness
And worthlessness
Please rescue me
From this abyss I jumped into
Please make me new
O Lord, love me
And hold me tonight in Your arms
Shelter me from my past
And protect me against doubt and despair
Take away the fear and the shame
Clear away the rubble and repair
The foundation of my faith
Heal the faults and prevent
Their return
Reinforce my foundations with
Faith stronger than I have known
Build a new temple
In my heart
With such strength that
Nothing can destroy it again
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Unclean Before You
I am sinful and unpure
I am nothing but
Unclean before You
I have no hope and no peace
I have no joy and
You reach out to me
“Unfaithful and useless
You were
Stained with sin and
Iniquity
You are washed in the blood
Of Christ
Your filthy soul is
Now clean and pure”
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Purify
Purify
Purify me
Purify my heart
Have mercy upon me O God
According to Your love for me
And please wipe the slate clean again
Wash away the stains on my heart
Wipe away this dirt inside me
‘Cause I know I did something wrong
I keep seeing it in my head
And I know I hurt You again
I was born with an unclean heart
Into a world that is unpure
But You want total honesty
Then You reveal the truth to me
That I have hidden from myself
Purge me and I will become clean
Wash away the dirt in my soul
Then I will be pure in Your sight
Make me to hear joy and gladness
This broken vessel will rejoice
Lord please hide my sins from Your face
And blot out my iniquities
Create a clean heart inside me
Renew a right spirit in me
Do not cast me from Your presence
And take not Thy spirit from me
Restore the joy of salvation
Unto my dry and empty soul
Lord carry me through this valley
Then I will teach sinners Your ways
Lord deliver me from myself
And be my refuge from the storm
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Worthless
What have I become
I feel so worthless
And useless
I have no value
To anyone but You
I have no strength
To renew my faith
I am so weak and