Crawling Around the Mourners Bench E-Book

Darryl Goodner

• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

Crawling Around the Mourners Bench is a compilation of poems, entailing the different stages of one Darryl Goodner. There was a time when I was at my lowest, as detailed by the poetry entitled "Suicide". I have endeavored to take the reader on a journey with me, through my ups and downs. All the way to where I 'welcome Freedom'.

Leseprobe

Darryl Goodner

Crawling Around the Mourners Bench

This is dedicated to Carrie B. Pendleton also Mary and Simone BookRix GmbH & Co. KG81371 Munich

PROLOGUE

For those few readers who may not know, the Mourners Bench is a place (usually a designated, sacred section), of the church. This is where troubled persons go to find refuge. And then others go to give undaunted Praise to GOD.

I was taken almost, from the hospital (after birth), to church. Barely into the world, I had no idea of the amusement that awaited me. I was both amazed and astounded, by the characters that church life produced. I had the luxury of watching life unfold from the spiritual side.

Much of the character's antics happened around this 'mourner's bench'.There would be jumping and shouting of the highest convoluted order.

Even my mother, who at times, would be called over-possessive, would get intensely involved.

These were the moments when she would sit me on the floor.

I would be seen, Crawling Around the Mourner's Bench.

S U I C I D E

This piece entails an assemblage of time of shadows...

pronounced by sporadic spots of luminance,

"...where there should have been light, shadows loomed."

S U I C I D E

There’s no more room in my mind;

There’s no more space.

I’ve gone to every part, seeking to find some relief,

but there is no place.

Your money is not my money,

and I’m not in pain because of that.

I have a heart ache so bad, cause’

all of my ‘lean’ dreams have turned to fat.

Have I pursued something so elusive,

so determined, that I thought this is what GOD wanted?

Now all my memories of me

praying for people,

and writing songs to stop the weeping,

those memories come back to me haunted.

Never did I want to be the one, whose works are discovered after one’s death.

I wanted to share some of this,

while I followed this life long pledge.

Could it be that I have been ‘barking up the wrong tree’,

my whole life long?

Is it possible that, with my love of life, and the arts and song,

that I could have been

just plain, dead

 wrong?    

If You Are Going To Struggle

IF YOU ARE GOING TO STRUGGLE

(do it in LA)

If you are going to struggle, do it in LA.

You can experience hardship,and do it in an“Academy-Award” way.

You can be rejected;

Your GOD-given ideas can be ignored or neglected,

even on a sunny day.

A smile on your face, and a knife in your back

can feel just as good

when it’s done in Hollywood!

Where else are the stars shining so bright?

You may see anyone of them

in the day or night.

You may see a couple of them at church.

But if you are pregnant with ideas and try to talk to them,

you better say your prayers first.

When you move to this town, you better have a goal,

and that goal should be imbedded in your soul.

And whatever that goal, or dream is, you had better stay near it.

There are forces in this City of Angels

that will try to kill your spirit.

Whatever your faith is….whatever fortitude you can find,

you better grab onto it,