Poetry and Prose
from the Sharon Baptist Church Laureates...
To Encourage those that are new to Christ. To Encourage those that live for Christ and may be experiencing challenging times and to Encourage those that have not yet opened their hearts to Him.
MY FRIEND IS ONE WHO NEVER COMPLAINS
WHO HELPS ME ALONG EACH AND EVERY DAY
NO MATTER WHAT THE CHALLENGE – HE IS THERE FOR ME
HE NEVER SAY ‘NO’ OR “I DON’T HAVE THE TIME”
HE JUST ANSWERS AND SAYS “WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND?”
I TELL HIM MY TROUBLES AND ALL MY THOUGHTS
BOTH GOOD AND BAD BECAUSE I KNOW HE HELP ME OUT
HE SAYS TO ME “DON’T WORRY YOURSELF
BECAUSE I HAVE ALREADY WORKED IT OUT”
THANK YOU LORD FOR YOU ARE A TRUE FRIEND
ONE THAT WILL LAST UNTIL THE END
SHEDRICK McCALL
DAY BY DAY WITH GOD
I THANK YOU LORD DAY BY DAY
FOR WHAT YOU DO FOR ME EACH DAY
BECAUSE ONLY YOU CAN SEE WHAT’S IN STORE FOR ME EACH DAY
SO I GIVE YOU PRAISE FOR WHO YOU ARE
BECAUSE WITHOUT YOU LORD THERE WOULD BE NO JOY
SHEDRICK McCALL
Home
Father I come before you
In the name of the Son
Triangulating of my square
East
In the square around my soul
Treading the path up Jacobs ladder
With clean hands
Seeking the portal
To the Mount of Olives
Where I can prostrate my soul
On Holy ground
In the presence of the King
To be consumed by His glory
As the anointing falls
And the consummation of my soul & spirit
With the Husbandman takes place
And the whole of my existence becomes a shout
Resting in the womb
Of the eternal parent
As I'm birthed in my Holy body
Sanctified into a new creation
Eternally in the body of Love...
Raheem Rafiuddin
LIFE – SHEDRICK McCALL
LIFE IS FOR LIVING ONE DAY AT A TIME
LIFE IS FOR FORGIVING, FOR WE KNOW NOT THE THINGS WE WILL DO
LIFE IS FOR REMEMBERING THOISE THINGS THAT BROUGHT UIS LOVE JOY AND PAIN
IN LIFE WE CAN’T GO BACK TO EITHER CHANGE OR CORRECT THE THINGS WE HAVE DONE
ONLY LEARN FROM THEM AND MOVE ON
LIFE CONTINUES GOOD OR BAD; HAPPY OR SAD
WE MUST PRESS ON UNTIL THE END; PRAYING FOR WISDOM AND SEEKING KNOWLEDGE
THE FAIRNESS OF LIFE NEVER EXISTED
BUT WE CAN REMAIN STRONG EVEN IN THIS UNFAIR WORLD
DO WHAT YOU CANTO MAKE A DIFFERENCE EACH DAY
YOU SEE GOD GAVE THIS WORLD TO US TO BE IN CHARGE
SEEK HIM EVERY DAY AND HE WILL MAKE A WAY
YOU SEE TIME ENEVER CHANGES, BUT ALL THINGS DO
TRUST ONLY IN GOD TO SEE YOU THROUGH
To One In Sorrow
by Grace Noll Crowell
Let me come in where you are weeping, friend, and let me take your hand.
I who have known a sorrow such as yours can understand.
Let me come in. I would be very still beside your grief.
I would not bid you cease your weeping, friend; tears bring relief.
Let me come in. I would only breathe a prayer and hold your hand;
For I have known a sorrow such as yours and understand.
Submitted by: Maegertha Mixon
GRANDPARENTS
(as recited on Grandparent’s Day)
RAHEEM RAFUIDDEN
Grandparents
You have been the fist
Of a soulful generation
That has knocked holes in racism
The foot
That has stood the grounds
Of a soldiers endless tomorrows
Fighting with the spirit of a Joe Louis
The courage of a Martin Luther King
A Marcus Garvey
A Malcolm X
A Sojourner Truth
The faith of Abraham
Cause in your souls you knew
That God would bring you though
Now
Because of you there is
No more white only fountains
No more Negro bathrooms
No more standing in the back
Of restaurants
to pick up or eat our food
No more black men being called “boy” by little white children
No more lynching of our innocence
And
Because of the spirit of your yesterday
Our today has a brand new soul
“Virginia”
Queen of the Ante Bellum South
Has its first African American governor
And to peak it all
We may have out first African American President
So that makes me proud to remember the days
When I used to put my little shoes in yours
To walk around the house
And today
In that same ole spirit
vow to continue walking in your footsteps
To make the light of my children’s tomorrow
As bright as you have made mine
today.
I MEET GOD IN THE MORNING
By Helen Steiner Rice
Submitted by: Maegertha J. Mixon
I meet God in the morning and go with him through the day,
Then in the stillness of the night before sleep comes I pray
That God will just take over all the problems I can't solve;
And in the
peacefulness of my sleep my cares will be dissolve.
So when I open my eyes to greet another day,
I'll find myself renewed in strength and there will open up a way
To meet what seemed impossible for me to solve alone;
And once again I'll be assured I am never on my own.
For if we try to stand alone we are weak and we will fall,
For God is always greatest when we're helpless, lost, and small.
But no day is unmeetable if, on rising, our first thought
Is to thank God for the blessings that His loving care has brought.
For there can be no failures or hopeless, unsaved sinners
If we enlist the help of God, who makes all losers winners,
So meet him in the morning and go with him through the day;
And thank Him for his guidance each evening when you pray.
And if you follow faithfully this daily way to pray,
You will never in your lifetime face another hopeless day
MAN OF PROMISE
RAHEEM RAFIUDDIN
Does Man
In his post-mortal consciousness
Comprehend the Eternal Covenant
The destiny of Christ
Which each covenant are centered
On the path toward light
Man born in sin
From the legacy of his father (Adam)
Fallen like the defiled angels
Reaching for the promise
Of the covenant
Written on the walls of their very souls
Seeking to look beyond the veil
And lie in the arms
Of glorification and sanctification
Clearing the apostasy
Through the covenant of works
Which takes his soul to the covenant of grace
On his knees before the Father
As a risen child of His mercy
HOW CAN MAN
RAHEEM RAFFIUDIN
How can man
After being forged by the light
Harbor darkness
In the womb of his soul
When he is a star
Made to shine on two realms
Imputing through his vessel
Light or darkness
Which feeds
The material and spiritual
Which becomes the substance
Of two intertwining vessels
How can man
God’s star-child
The copula
Of two worlds
Touched
By His grace and mercy
Filled
With the Holy Spirit
Charged
By the covenant
Of the Christ-child
Be cognizant
But not capable
Of harnessing the Will
And reaching the exultation of freedom
Which takes him into
THE
Glorification and Sanctification
Of the upper room
THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH
RAHEEM RAFIUDDIN
Jesus said: He is the truth, the light, the way. And He also states; no man comes unto the father except by Him. You see, the essence of this is felt when we began to first trust, believe & later understand the analogy of our most sacred Trinity, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost.
Jesus spoke to us in parables so that only God fearing believers would know and understand the true meaning of His words, so that we could continue to grow and prosper as faithful servants of the most high. Acknowledging our sins and sincere repentence will cause God to cleanse our souls and renew us in His ever saving grace.
To come forthright with truth is to come face to face with Jesus, because He is the truth, God's truth. This is why He sent Jesus to us as Messiah with His message of love and purification. A walk with Jesus is to walk with love on a path that will lead you to inner santity of your soul where the throne of God beccomes apparently clear to those of us whom have become divinely inpired.
Jesus's life exemplified a love of God & man so pure, if studied in the spirit of Love, with the sincerity of the heart, it will lead to a knowledge of God's precepts and the very wisdom derived from these precepts will change your walk, your talk, and every thought, till you're firmly on the path that leads to the kingdom.
DO YOU BELIEVE IN LOVE?
CRYSTAL MIXON
I put the bright sunshine in the sky and glistened the night with the moon and stars, just for you – but still you don’t believe in Love.
I created the birds to sing love songs and the wind to whistle tenderly in your ear – but still you don’t believe in Love.
I sent the rain to wash away your sorrow and pain – but still you don’t believe in Love.
I put angels on earth to watch over you – and still you don’t believe in Love.
I sent my only son to suffer and die for you all because I love you.
How can you not believe in Love?
If you believe in Me then you believe in Love
For you cannot have one without the other.
Do you believe in Love?
HOW TO MAKE LOVE
RAHEEM RAFUIDDIN
Come to me my Queen
hold my hand
close your eyes
and let me show you
how to make love.
Like two birds in the trees
Having emotional foreplay
I wanna hug your spirit
and caress your soul
Touch your mind with my thoughts
And catapult your heart
Into a state of emotions
that can not be explained in words
I wanna show you how to may love
without touching
The only thing that will be involved
is our feelings
And the frictions of our hearts
The vehemency of emotions
that will set your world on fire
I wanna show you how to make love
like gods and goddesses in heaven
like Solomon and Sheba
Like the sun touching the skin of the moon
And put you in tune
With a love that touches more than flesh.
I wanna show you how to make love
True love
A love that makes yesterday become tomorrow
And tomorrow becomes forever
Let this love become the contents of your dreams
Fill the voids in our life
Become more potent than the vibes of Venice
Stronger than the tip of Cupid’s arrow
Let me fill your soul with something other than the embodiment of flesh
Let me touch the Queen
The spirit of love that god gave you
And tenderly
ever so softly
make love to it
Like I was the spirit of love incarnate
Immersing myself into the core
Of everything that God made you to be
Come my Queen
Come to me
And let me
Show you
How to make love
THE GREATEST GIFT IS THAT OF LOVE
GOD LOOK UPON US AND IT TURNED HIS HEART.
FOR THE HUMANS HE CREATED HAD BROKEN HIS HEART
BUT IN SPITE OF IT ALL HE STILL LOVES US SO
HE GAVE US HIS SON, HIS GREATEST LOVE OF ALL
IN THE TWINKLE OF AN EYE AND WITHOUT HESITATION
HE REDUCED HIS SON TO BE JUST LIKE HIS CREATION
THE SON THAT CAME TO EARTH TO BE THE BRIDGE WE HAD LOST
TO REUNITE US AGAIN WITH HIM
HE ASKED ONLY ONE THING THAT WE DO
TO ACCEPT HIS SON AS HE ACCEPT YOU
"FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON".
My Prayer :
Maegertha J. Mixon.
Our heavenly father who is the maker of all things. Thank you for your grace and mercy. Thank you for your son that you gave to die on the cross for our sins. Lord sometimes my faith is weak, please help me Lord to be strong give me more faith and understanding of your word. Sometimes I feel so small when I look around me and see and hear so many bad thing that happens. I say to myself, what can do to make a difference. When I see people dying all around the world from little or no medicine, food or clothes and so many other things. Lord please help the mentally ill society has not been good to them. Please help me to understand a lot of thing in the world. Lord I am leaning on your everlasting arms that's fill with love and never gets tired So Lord I will do my part and I know you will do the rest.
Amen
'Twas The Night Before Jesus Came Back'. 'Twas the night before Jesus came and all through the house
Not a creature was praying, not one in the house.
Their Bibles were lain on the shelf without care
In hopes that Jesus would not come there.
The children were dressing to crawl into bed.
Not once ever kneeling or bowing a head.
And Mom in her rocker with baby on her lap
Was watching the Late Show while I took a nap.
When out of the East there arose such a clatter.
I sprang to my feet to see what was the matter.
Away to the window I flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash!
When what to my wondering eyes should appear
But angels proclaiming that Jesus was here.
With a light like the sun sending forth a bright ray
I knew in a moment this must be THE DAY!
The light of His face made me cover my head
It was Jesus! returning just like He had said.
And though I possessed worldly wisdom and wealth,
I cried when I saw Him in spite of myself.
In the Book of Life which He held in His hand
Was written the name of every saved man.
He spoke not a word as He searched for my name;
When He said "it's not here" my head hung in shame.
The people whose names had been written with love
He gathered to take to His Father above.
With those who were ready He rose without a sound.
While all the rest were left standing around.
I fell to my knees, but it was too late;
I had waited too long and thus sealed my fate.
I stood and I cried as they rose out of sight;
Oh, if only I had been ready tonight.
In the words of this poem the meaning is clear;
The coming of Jesus is drawing near.
There's only one life and when comes the last call
We'll find that the Bible was true after all!
WHY DO WE COMPLAIN SO MUCH?
SHEDRICK McCALL
Why do we complain so much?
Is it that we feel rejected or neglected?
Is it really that important to have what others have?
Or is it we just want to have something to say?
Or is it we like things out way?
It is a shame we waste our day.
Watching what others do and say.
When really we should be thankful
God gave us this day to move forward in our own way.
So the next time you start to complain
Remember God loves us all the same
Control is Him and not in us
So remember to trust and not fuss
For God is still in control, Not us.
LORD, WHY DID YOU MAKE ME BLACK?
Richard H. Bowling
Why Did You Make Me Black Lord ....
Lord .... Why did you make me black?
Why did you make someone
the world would hold back?
Black is the color of dirty clothes,
of grimy hands and feet...
Black is the color of darkness,
of tired beaten streets...
Why did you give me thick lips,
a broad nose and kinky hair?
Why did you create someone
who receives the hated stare?
Black is the color of the bruised eye
when someone gets hurt...
Black is the color of darkness,
black is the color of dirt.
Why is my bone structure so thick,
my hips and cheeks so high?
Why are my eyes brown,
and not the color of the sky?
Why do people think I'm useless?
How come I feel so used?
Why do people see my skin
and think I should be abused?
Lord, I just don't understand...
What is it about my skin?
Why is it some people want to hate me
and not know the person within?
Black is what people are "Labeled"
when others want to keep them away...
Black is the color of shadows cast...
Black is the end of the day.
Lord you know my own people mistreat me,
and you know this just ain't right...
They don't like my hair, they don't like my
skin, as they say I'm too dark or too light!
Lord, don't you think
it's time to make a change?
Why don't you redo creation
and make everyone the same?
GOD'S REPLY
Richard H. Bowling
Why did I make you black? Why did I make you black?
I made you in the color of coal
from which beautiful diamonds are formed...
I made you in the color of oil,
the black gold which keeps people warm.
Your color is the same as the rich dark soil
that grows the food you need...
Your color is the same as the black stallion and
panther, Oh what majestic creatures indeed!
All colors of the heavenly rainbow
can be found throughout every nation...
When all these colors are blended,
you become my greatest creation!
Your hair is the texture of lamb's wool,
such a beautiful creature is he...
I am the shepherd who watches them,
I will ALWAYS watch over thee!
You are the color of the midnight sky,
I put star glitter in your eyes...
There's a beautiful smile hidden behind your pain...
That's why your cheeks are so high!
You are the color of dark clouds
from the hurricanes I create in September...
I made your lips so full and thick,
so when you kiss...they will remember!
Your stature is strong,
your bone structure thick to withstand the
burden of time...
The reflection you see in the mirror,
that image that looks back, that is MINE!
So get off your knees,
look in the mirror and tell me what you see?
I didn't make you in the image of darkness...
I made you in the image of ME!
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