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May 2020 Shiv Pratap Pal

WE

May 2020 Shiv Pratap Pal

Faith

WE

It's hard to see
Goodness
It's easy to hear the
Bad
We each fight our own
Battles
But why don't we walk hand in
Hand
It seems like we only
Hurt
But there is so much
Love
The light is just inside
Us
And together we'll fly like
Doves

#together #inside #love #teamwork #goodness #doves

May 2020 Shiv Pratap Pal

DEJECTION

May 2020 Shiv Pratap Pal

Lori Jones McCaffery

DEJECTION

I try to see the beauty in a rose
But it smells just like a **** to me.

My pen is filled with lovely words
That I can’t put on paper.

My heart’s aware that it’s been robbed
Of everything that’s velvet

But it beats on in vain attempt
To recognize a bluebird.
ljm

I was quite blue a while back. I'm OK now.

May 2020 Shiv Pratap Pal

What Pain is teaching me

May 2020 Shiv Pratap Pal

Steven Cole

What Pain is teaching me

Through the pain
Truth can be hard to see
In the pain
It can be hard to think clearly
Because of the pain
God is giving me
The desire to love others
For who they are
Not as they ought to be

#Broken-ness
#Love
#healing

May 2020 Shiv Pratap Pal

Lady Jane Grey

May 2020 Shiv Pratap Pal

Jackie Mead

Lady Jane Grey

Lady Jane, oh so young.
A life taken, a beautiful lady hung.

A Queen of just nine days.
Not long enough to bestow upon us her humanist ways.

Arrested and taken to the Tower.
By men and Lords of means and power.

Convicted of high treason.
Found guilty, religion given as the reason.

Sentenced to death, just seventeen.
The untimely death of the Nine Day Queen.

I love history, I wrote this a while ago after a visit to the Tower of London and seeing Ann Boleyns and Lady Jane Greys in the chapel was very emotional for me.