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Gabriel Bonney Sep 2019
Give me a new perspective, a new elective
A dialect I can elect to project
Something so I can feel protected
But is this Your elective I’m rejecting?
Is the addict for good or for evil?
Is the steeple for preaching or people?
I should have spoken and offered the key
But still I left us both diseased
So will I speak or will I please?
Is this for You or is it for me?
Some questions I’ve been asking myself as I think about publishing all my thoughts.
Gabriel Bonney Sep 2019
I didn’t like what I had become
On this website, what I had done
What it had reminded me of
I was ashamed so I left this stage
I hid and hoped you’d forget
About the legacy I wanted to leave
So I left, and put this on a shelf
I don’t know what else I may write
Or what I won’t do right
But I hope to convey some light
That God does not love you based on what you’ve done
But when you accept Him, He loves you through the lens of the Son
When you go to Him and lay down your life
He will not deny you salvation based on your past
I thought you should hear this truth. Maybe I’ll start writing on this again
Gabriel Bonney Jun 2019
do you ever stop in your tracks,
sit,
look at the unusual,
stay there,
wait a while
for
your brain
to
finally
rest
I was going up to my room to write for a while, but now I’m sitting on the stairs, listening to RUNAWAY by half•alive at 9:21 on 6.24.19. Lot of deep stuff about life going through my head, but I like the way the downstairs looks in the dusk light. I can’t explain it, comment if you understand or not
Gabriel Bonney Jun 2019
Who are we deep deep down
Initially?
flesh
or Blood?
2.21.19
Gabriel Bonney Jun 2019
How worthy am I
That You would go and die
And trust me enough to make the eye
I don’t know if I’ve published this poem before, but I know it by heart. This week, I’ve been really thinking about how unworthy I am to be saved. Even now, I don’t know why Christ would die for me, even when I’m still hostile and so selfish. I don’t understand. I know that this should lead me to live a new life, like I’ve talked about before, but right now I’m in a funk, and I’m back in the gloom. Trying to figure that out. - 2.27.19

6.11.19 (almost 6.12.19, like in 33 minutes) - It’s crazy to think that God went ahead and died for all of us, even when a ton wouldn’t accept His Salvation. It’s right here in front of us, right now He’s offering to save your life and take you into His kingdom. Your world won’t immediately be fantastic, we must still rely on God to resist the devil’s schemes to lead us from having faith. We are not worthy, we will still stumble, but God will not let us fall, because He loves us and desperately wants a relationship with us.
Gabriel Bonney Jun 2019
Oh how frustrating it must be
For you to watch the being inside of me
Become the thing it doesn’t want to be
How degrading, the time you’re wasting
Trying your hardest to make me feel
Can I just say that I’m being real?
Trying Your hardest to fill my well
To lose the voices I know so well
Well how frustrating, it must be
As I sit here comfor’bly
How degrading I must seem
As I fade here underneath
This is a combination of a poem I wrote a couple months ago and a song I wrote a couple years ago. Last month, I painted something for art class, and in the description I described the bed to represent this idea of what is normal—a bed is a pretty typical thing for a lot of people, an everyday item—and how “our monsters” can hide under this mask of normality we put on. I think this poem goes along with that idea.
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