Angels With Dirty Faces

I'm sitting here in hell trying to live like an angel
Outnumbered by millions as was Jesus in his manger
Got this weight on my shoulders, terrorist, death, child soldiers
Trouble's right outside our door, more lies told to console us
Now I didn't ask to be here, but right here is where I am
So my spirit soars high like an eagle guarding my flesh
As a shepherd would his lamb.
Still I get tired, feeling trapped even in the cloulds and sky
So if my rain falls upon you, know that's just the tears I cry
I know I won't live forever, but the dichotomy of a great man
Knows eternal life is his option, death is the devils game plan

See when I look upon the desert I see a trillion grains of sand
I visualize people who have walked this earth before me
Whose spirits have traveled off to a new land
So my conscious will keep searching as I climb life's ladder
And though I've slipped a few times the journey's all that really matters

Still I awake every morning seeing all these angels with dirty Faces
And I just pray GOD forgives us, for we were just brought up in dirty places.

                                                                        
©2007 Thomas L. White III

The Great Debate

Some might say that GOD's most awesome and powerful creation was MAN

But then again all of GOD'S creations are awesome.

But who would argue that to take the rib of a MAN to make a WOMAN was a feat

as awesome as the making of MAN himself

But now Power... Power is a different story all together

For no one questions the power of MAN, why would they? GOD made MAN in his own IMAGE

And WOMAN, being made of MAN, couldn't have been as powerful as MAN...or was she?

For her power was so strong that MAN turned his back from walking with GOD to walk with her.

Now surely a creation made by the creator couldn't be as powerful as the creator himself

Yet her power was strong enough to take GOD'S most perfect and awesome creation into a life of HELL!

How could this happen? Surely WOMAN was made with a heart as pure as the heart of MAN

For she was made from MAN for MAN!

And surely GOD wouldn't give to MAN something or someone not in perfect harmony with that MAN

For to do so would seem like a setup of some sorts

Yet we all know that GOD made no mistakes in the makeup of his creations

Meaning...Two Perfect creations could not become a corrupt situation without some outside agitation.

SO the real question is while we're here on this earth, do we live to coexist? Or must we coexist to live?

For the truth is neither MAN nor WOMAN really have the power

We have only the AWESOMENESS of being created!

©2000 Thomas L. White III

Looking Back

 

On the surface I seem to win, yet inside I lose
It's all due to choices that I decided to choose
Cause of all these emotions that I often feel
I must deal with this pain, pain that's all too real
See the tears from my soul
Run deeper than the water from my eyes
But it's no surprise, still I rise
Though I was conceived based on lies
Yet, like dripping water will form a puddle
That forms a pool
I've leaked through the cracks
Where defeat and heartbreak rule
I've had to deal with painful situations
And learn to rise above
I've had to hurdle all that hate
Too cross the finish line with love
And it was never really easy
My childhood of hurt and scandal
But looking back, I see God gave me
No more than I could really handle.

©2000 Thomas L. White III

The Directions

Start on Highway "Straight Up", get off on exit "Humble", take that all the way up to "Faith" stay on "Faith" through all of the traffic lights and detours because that Street is always under construction, but it will lead you to the main intersection of "Jesus and Christ", once you have crossed the intersection of "Jesus and Christ" you'll find yourself on "Deliverance Avenue" you can cut your navigation system off at that point because that Avenue takes you straight through "Heaven's Gate" into the House of GOD!

                                                                        
©2011 Thomas L. White III

Grandma's Words

Grandma used to tell me way back in the day
Boy dark times ain't the only time to pray
She said son in this life as you climb the hill
Make sure the things you feel, are the things that's real
Watch the people that you meet as you grow in age
Remember love is always stronger, then any misplaced rage
Cause you can be wet in the rain, and cold in the snow
Have no money in your pocket; feel at your all time low
But GOD has still got you covered, and when you need a real friend
Ask the Father to guild your way, and he will step right in
Just stay true to what you do, be humble in the way you live
Blessing will lay in the things you receive
But they will come based on how you give!

                                                              
©2011 Thomas L. White III

From The Outside Looking In

From where I stand I can see no wrong
I feel no hurt, like a perfect love song
I can't understand the problem, cause I'm only a friend
Who's kept at a distance, from the outside looking in!
While I see through my emotions, the things I wise could be
Am I blind 'cause of your beauty, style, grace, and mystery?
For those gifts without substance will only lead us to sin
Yet this is just my view, from the outside looking in!
Maybe my heart is open to receive a gift not being given
Such a clouded view from a man so emotionally driven
But still my motives I must question again and again
This strange feeling of a friend, from the outside looking in!
Oh how I would love to be that significant other
And believe things often happen for a reason
Just as flowers don't bloom in the winter
Our love hasn't grown this season
But I'm very optimistic...seven one a scale of one to ten
Please understand my position, from the outside looking in!
Now I know in time , this picture will become clear
For the windows to your soul, will tell the story one day my dear
And the truth to that story, you'll never have to defend
Not to this man who views you...from the outside looking in!

                                                                        
©2000 Thomas L. White III

Love for Life

I've got a love for life, and a lust to live it.
So critical it is to our existence
Yet GOD blessed me with the ability to give it.
So why would I want to take another life away
since that’s the gift that I valve so much.
Why should I ever willingly deprive this world
the gift of another child of GOD human touch!
Because when I look deep into a person eyes
there's a mirror that I see
Reflections of their joys and pains, their losses and gains
Yes...In every person’s eyes I see a little piece of me.
So if the eyes are the windows to the view of one’s soul
then its inside those windows, where our life puzzles will unfold.
And through our trials and tribulations, through our torn and strife
we’ll survive if we stand strong, and just... have a love for life.


©2007 Thomas L. White III