Joshua Penrod

Joshua Penrod Sep 2016

Old Soul

I am an old soul
I never asked for explorers to progress
I never asked for inventors to invent
I never asked for science to discover or scholars to detect
I never asked to go from Steamers to engines
I never wanted to trade vinyl for headphones

But I’d always trade city lights for a mountain range
A worn out skyline for an open plane

Why do we complicate our lives in attempt to make them simple?
And why has living simply, become to most something trivial

I am raptured in this soul that refuses to age
In times that are always persistent to change

"Old Soul" -JP

#love #time #soul #old #generations #minutes #seconds #hour #century #timeless

Joshua Penrod Aug 2016

Rhythm Your Heart

Rest now my child
Worry not what your fortune may tell
For you will always be with me

Hold fast to the path where your feet may fall
Even when your midnight eyes become oh so weak

Take my hand as I lead you on
Past every dark into the land of the living

Rhythm your heart steady and strong
To endure the good plan you are already fulfilling

“Rhythm Your Heart” -JP

#love #direction #life #end #path #journey #prophecy #destination #guidance

Joshua Penrod Aug 2016

Her Door

Then what is a door that is open
With beauty before me I walk
Though I go drunken to her door
Beaten and black
Guarded by brilliance

Here I am there you are
One hand on the trigger one hand on the hand
Let both of us together leave our lives
Wealthy and wine flushed
Who would exchange compassion for a drink
Oh Lord almighty who hast formed us weak

I will have done with it I will not stand
The pain is real here's your life’s end
It is over, what is over?
In her door alone I stand

"Her Door" -JP

#love #loss #mystery #beauty #her #door #tragedy #poetic

Joshua Penrod Jun 2016

My Everything

You are the kind of marvel that reveals the suns bright side
The kind that calls the moon to bring out his warmth
You kiss the glow of the ever setting dusk
And wake up the early rising dawn

You are my sun and moon
You are my dawn and dusk
You are my earth
You are most simply darling,
My everything

"My Everything" -JP

#love #sun #moon #art #beauty #stars #sky #journey #dawn #dusk

Joshua Penrod Jun 2016

Midnight Shade

I stop in the midnight shade of the trees
Under the shadow of moonlit courtesy
Where angels ascend and descend

On the cobblestones of eternity
In the casting of certain uncertainty
Doth my soul completely depend……

Yes

Within this certain peace I find
Surpassing the trap of my fickle mind

Yes

And peace shall carry me unto the end

"Midnight Shade" -JP

#peace #hell #space #demons #balance #heaven #angels #eternity

Joshua Penrod Jun 2016

Shallow Grave

Don't mourn a shallow grave if it's what I prefer
I want to feel winter as it cools the skin of the earth
So I can feel Lucifer churn my ground from his sorrow of going astray
To feel the pulsing of the sun, while no more a witness unto the day

"Shallow Grave" -JP

#love #peace #death #die #good #grave #silence #goodness #shallow #graveside

Joshua Penrod Jun 2016

I Fall

I fall
Down Down Down
I fall infinitely
I am and continue to bask in the revelation of gravity's honest pull

Drop Drop Drop
Down Down Down
Fall Fall Fall
I find honesty In the moments where I grasp nothing
When I come face to face with decision, obligation
and
The things I cherish most

Drop Drop Drop
Down Down Down
I Fall Fall Fall
In anticipation of the very bottom
I see not what awaits at the end of my decent
Drop Drop Drop

“Fall” -JP

#life #fall #path #control #unsure #decisions #decision #uncontrollable #destiny