Trevor Toews

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The world is turning clockwise,
and the ticking doesn't stop.
The rigid hands, like marching bands,
move forward round the clock.
...

The unborn child,
As she waits in darkness for the coming dawn,
Wrapped in solitude's restricting bands,
Is nurtured by a life line, fed and cared for
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How many of these gleaming, lifeless stones,
Will you erect and dedicate with hollow prayer?
Will the hordes of idols never be enough?
The mystic scenes that decorate your domes?
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Have you ever been alone at night,
Waiting for first light,
And tried to will the earth to spin one minute faster?
It didn’t change its pace at all by what you said.
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The devil owns the question mark
He wields it like a sickle in the grass,
Hacks contentment, severs my resolve
With all the slicing questions that he asks.
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And tomorrow when you wake up
Mind the space that you will take up
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Back when the mighty Prince of Peace
Could be wrapped up tight in swaddling clothes,
Back when His needs were the simplest comforts,
Only a mother in love bestows.
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Made from scratch we say,
We like it better that way,
And I wonder
Where does the original scratch come from anyway?
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You know how the branches of a tree
Split and split again,
Until these thousand passages terminate in leaves,
Not one of them the same.
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Night has fallen,
Long since the woods were stilled
By the wind withdrawing to take another breath
Even the owl stops calling
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Beside the road, at a little gravel turnout, I stop and park
Both the road ahead and the road back home seem dark
I check the mirror, blurred be the tears that flow
I'm at a loss, which way to go.
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There aren't walls high enough, you said
And there aren't
No rule or mandate
Can keep a curious youth from wandering
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How can I speak of the present time,
Without first a moment of silence for what has been?
Can I tell you the meaning of today,
And never utter mention of the past?
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These years have done You well!
I can't find
An empty place I would have filled,
And I wonder how soon after I was gone,
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That ray of light, and heat, and power
Which leaves the sun and never finds a mark,
That travels on and on and on,
Ever dimming,
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Strange places I have been!
I looked on with rapt intrigue
Yet, everywhere is normal
And everyone is home
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I took a walk along the canal tonight,
And nobody else saw what I witnessed there.
I could say, but I wouldn't get it right;
I had the advantage of the fading light;
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He told me if I didn't have a sword
That I should sell my garment and go buy one
I did so, in obedience to my Lord
And I felt better with a weapon to rely on
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I'll never forget how they picked up those rocks
Trembling with anger, self-justified
How they pointed at me with those long bony fingers
And told Him, almost excitedly, according to law,
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When the rain won't fall from the yellow sky
And the last thin cloud goes twirling by
And the land where I live is dry, dry, dry
There's still a hallowed place where I
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Trevor Toews Biography

I wasn't born in the mountains, but I got here as fast as I could. Colorado.)

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Clockwise

The world is turning clockwise,
and the ticking doesn't stop.
The rigid hands, like marching bands,
move forward round the clock.

And desperate backward snatches,
yield nothing in my grasp.
The rolling hearse has no reverse,
that bears away the past.

I'd like to live them over,
those sets of circumstance
When, called to rise and mobilize,
I left it all to chance.

I'd like to seize and salvage,
quick words that I have said,
And in their place, to have the grace,
for kinder ones instead.

The aura of the moment
I failed to recognize
The simplest spot I hallowed not,
was actually paradise.

Those golden days I frivoled,
their purpose now I see,
How could I miss the emphasis,
of meaning there for me?

Life is not a jackpot,
the treasure's interspersed
And seldom grants another chance,
as perfect as the first.

So cherish every moment,
savor every drop.
The world is turning clockwise,
and the ticking doesn't stop.

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