Mary Wismer Poems

Deliver me Lord, from the fear of being despised.
Oh, how I need this fearlessness for witnessing.
The fear of suffering rebuke
Yet I need correction to avoid lagging in my discipleship.
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I’ve been looking for a reason for us to have fallen out,
a reason for you to be so evasive and
act different ever since I confided in you and
told you a few intimate things. I didn’t scare you off, did I?
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Renewing faith with evidence empirical.
Yes, we need fresh testimony lyrical,
Changing hearts that else would change to stone,
Healing those who, hearing, would atone,
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I keep trying to find a life
On my Own, apart from you.
I am the king of excuses,
I've got one for every selfish
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No affinity no reality
Look at secrets of telepathy
every beat of waiting heart
singing the song of friendship art
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Sin

Captured by my emotions
Mixed feelings race within
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Life end when you stop dreaming,
hope ends when you stop believing,
love ends when your heart is cold.
Friendship end when you stop sharing.
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The Shortest distance between
a problem and a solution is the distance
between your knees and the floor.
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He brought me to his Banqueting table.
And His Banner over me is Love.
I am my Beloved's and he is mine.
And we can feel the love of God
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In these hard times, when people are
self-conscious and shut themselves from others,
suspicious of anyone who tries to get close
and of all displays of affection,
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