Babylon is fallen, is fallen, is fallen!
Lunatics are calling, are calling, are calling,
Demons are screaming, are screaming, are screaming,
Their world is careening, careening, careening,
The wicked are wailing, are wailing, are wailing,
Nature is railing, is railing, is railing,
Earth’s systems are failing, are failing, are failing,
Evil’s impaling, impaling, impaling!
Now His furious focus,
No more hope for the hopeless!
Copyright 2024. L. L. Shelton.
Gentle people
Everywhere,
Now engage
In earnest prayer.
Stage is set
For promised peace,
Therein will come
Our sweet release.
While we see,
Some are blind;
Those precious souls
Still left behind.
We pray Thy peace
Will flood their minds,
Transforming them
Into our kind.
True peace from Thee
We now receive,
Trusting Thy Son
We now believe.
Let us proceed
On bended knee,
Proclaim ourselves
To be with Thee.
Copyright 2024. L.L. Shelton.
With their noise
And their toys,
Boys will be boys,
In the woods
Laying claim,
To little girls
They name dames.
Little girls
With their curls,
Their dresses that twirl,
In the grass,
Lingering,
From little boys
They bring kings.
Copyright 2024. L.L. Shelton.
Not by aught
That I have done,
But by thy blood
My victory won,
Not by aught
Except thy love,
Was mercy ceded
From above;
And wandering we,
True Church of Light,
Brought home to glory,
In thy sight!
Not by aught
But by thy might,
All creation
Is made right.
Copyright 2024. L. L. Shelton.
How long will I stand
In this world of undreams,
Where only the shadows
Are what they seem?
Left brain overwhelmed,
Right mind seeing ‘round,
Let me write or draw or paint,
I must remember thoughts I think.
Copyright 2023. L.L. Shelton.
Life is nothing if not comical,
Most certainly it’s truly tragic.
Our dilemma’s astronomical;
We need a special brand of magic.
Enter Aslan: ONE TRUE KING,
His mighty roar salvation brings!
Copyright 2023. L.L. Shelton.
If traveling would make of me
One who’d ever wander,
Harming hearts and failing minds
And tearing things asunder;
Thanks be to God who keeps me home,
Allowing me to wonder,
O’re color in the flower’s frame
And rolling of the thunder.
Copyright 2023. L.L. Shelton.
For Lemona Elliott & Ladonna Elliott Daniel
In the quiet,
six foot depth,
we gravely laid
your case to rest.
Daughter sighed,
mother wept,
children round
softly crept.
By grace alone
you stood your ground,
and in Christ
new freedom found.
Away with you,
our faithful plea,
fly to Him
your soul to keep!
Until your case
be once more raised;
The Judge shouts, “You-
come forth be saved;”
Your shell will linger,
decompose,
over it green
grasses grow.
But on That Day,
in That Hour,
be resurrected
by His power;
Then running and leaping
and praising God,
o’re soil our feet
this day hath trod.
Copyright 2023. L.L. Shelton.
Allow that I know
My safety is in You alone;
That I am safe because
You keep me safe,
That there is no need
For any other but You.
Do fill me up with You,
Wash me daily in Your Word;
Surround my soul
Within Your Essence,
Keep me safe,
Safe and sound.
Amen.
Copyright 2023. L.L. Shelton.
I wish to see the tulips
In their splendor testify,
Your beauty is reality
Not some shell you hide behind.
Friendship is a solemn gift
Not given by the blind.
Is there something more you seek?
There is no more to find.
All are fools but for His Love,
No other story matters;
I have no greater gift to give,
Though see your heart in tatters.
An idol’s not a thing that lasts,
Broken bent and battered,
It’s buried deep beneath the earth,
With its subjects shattered.
Copyright 2023. L.L Shelton.