There is nowhere God is not
Even in what doesn’t last
God gives all things a future
And is not shackled by the past
In our weakness strength is known
And through it we know each other
So through it we are all made One
Each a sister and a brother
So let us see our humanness
Through the eyes of the One who made it
That we might be repairers of the breach
For the world we’ve co-Created
© Copyright 2018 Pedro S. Silva II
Into Your hands I commit my spirit
Because I won’t endure this lie
This prison system cannot be True
Built on the illusion that we must die
Death’s nothing more or less than a doorway
Or when a movie changes scenes
Different characters embody roles
But there’s just One Dreamer of these dreams
Yet somehow we’ve conceived to deny this
Even though it makes no sense
In the beginning there was always One
And there only has been ever since.
I struggle everyday to express this
To live wholly in Your call
Knowing that I’m denying One
If I can’t see You in All
This is the fruit of religious life
Bonding body and mind to soul
Forsaking the separate self that never was
And abandoning false control
This is when the journey ends
We’ve found the only thing worth finding
And teaching each other is no longer done
We simply trust in Your reminding
This is what I live this Life for
Every other way must be undone
My spirit in the hands of the All in All
Completes what never had begun
© Copyright 2017 Pedro S. Silva II
The next time that you kill us
Remember we never really die
Suppressing us won’t free you
Because Truth can’t sustain a lie
I know our presence scares you
We make you feel unsure
Nothing can quite prepare you
For seeing your prejudice impure
You’ve been taught we’re inconvenient
You try to hide us from your view
But locking us up doesn’t keep us out
Since you can’t get away from you
Your history of violence
Towards those who look like me
Has left so many people silent
That we barely know how to be
You say that we are valued
And yet you try to hide the Truth
But there’s no escaping what’s evident
We are the living proof
But where does this knowledge leave us
For too many it ushers shame
The one thing no one wants to feel
Because we can’t escape the pain
See that’s not what we’re seeking
What we want to share is hope
But in our face you see a mirror
And hang the image from a rope
Your guilt too, is not of value
It’s just denial in different dress
Which leads to justification
Which fosters anger and unrest
So what is the solution?
Where do we go from here?
How can we live by a better Way,
When we hold on to our fear?
The answer is we cannot
We have to let love win
Or die in the darkness that we choose
And then do it all again
They told him “put your hands up.”
He did and that day he died.
Innocence put to death.
His crime was he complied
The authorities are the ones who killed him.
He must have “fit the right description”
They called him a troublemaker.
Never mind it was a fiction
It wasn’t just the way he looked
It was also the way he saw
He loved outside the rules
To them it violated law
He was out with his friends
No one knows what he did wrong
But they came for him with their weapons
They already had them drawn
Though unarmed and non-threatening,
They started drawing near
To me it’s quite ironic
That they were filled with so much fear
What were they afraid of–
The stories they were told?
“You better watch out with a guy like him.”
“He’s been known to lose control.”
“Have you seen the crowd he hangs with?”
“Let’s look at all the facts.”
“A gang leader if there was ever one.”
“He should have never crossed the tracks.”
“He dines with people known as criminals.”
“He’s friends with women of the night.”
“Believe me he’s not innocent’.”
“Something is just not right.”
That’s the kind of messaging
That makes those like him such a threat
No one ever gets him
And we still haven’t seen him yet
That’s why still today we kill him
In the bodies we see as least
And yet many of us say we follow him
I thought he was called “The Prince of Peace”
He died so we could stop this
But still we choose to pay the price
Because whenever we kill the innocent
We are always killing Christ.
© Copyright 2016 Pedro S. Silva II
No matter what one thinks about Christ, we know what innocence is and what it isn’t in the depths of our being. When we deny that knowledge, we deny all that can be right in this world.
All things to All things
Nothing is denied
But we’re fighting over bread crumbs
Because someone believed a lie
So now we kill each other
In our constant pursuit of more
We believe we are “consumers”
Because we don’t know what we’re for
Infinite Creation
Nothing more or less
But instead destruction follows us
When we put us to the test
Addicted to the thought of conquering
Sixty steps till we unlearn
That the truth of life is obvious
When we’re not looking for our turn
In the mean time there’s confusion
We’re told we have to choose a side
Contests between “us” and “them”
Where the winner doesn’t die
But what if someone told you
That everything is yours
And everything is everyone’s
And no one’s keeping score
The House is not divided
Upon the Rock is where it stands
Never to be shaken
By unreasonable demands
But because it can’t be broken
It won’t resist what it is we do
We can lie all the hell we want to
Because all of it’s untrue
Though we deny the Absolute
It simply continues as it is
Fully realized. No need to strive.
For it’s the life that we all Live
It’s the Bread that’s not devoured
Though we eat it to our fill
Diminishing every sense of loss
Like nothing ever will
Wonder where I’m coming from?
Let me get you up to speed.
If it’s true–God provides
What I want, I don’t need
Being less never is
In the One Source of All
But let the world tell it
We’re divided by our falls
Makes us so small
Man this grift amaze me
Used to say, “We all One”
But they called me, “Crazy”
Now to me it seems lately
It’s the Word of Truth
The lie of separation
Is now busting loose
Because I Am you are
One Light Two Stars
Shining inside out
So we never go too far
Well that’s about it
That’s All I want to say
Now that that’s off my chest
I bow down to pray.
I want to be of service
To pour out who I am
Without the thoughts being accepted
Or that people will understand
I don’t want to shift based on opinion
Just to move when I’m in Truth
And be willing to fail if that’s what’s real
And need no signs or proof
I want to follow Jesus
Even if it takes me to the Cross
Because I know he stands in the Light of Love
Where in Truth there is no loss
I no longer want to deny Him
Just because he cannot be explained
You see he’s bigger than religion
With a love that’s not contained.
I want to live his revelation
That all of us are One
The truth he lives and dies for
Until every lie’s undone.
© Copyright 2016 Pedro S. Silva II
It’s all right here
Meaning everything’s here
Nothing in creation
That is far from the near
Seen and the unseen
Everything is one
See the other side of outside
As where the inside’s begun
Winners can’t lose
When the whole game is fixed
For the house to go bust
When you cash in your chips
Give all you have
And watch it all come back
10,000 fold
In this world with no lack
There is no nothing
In the fullness of what is
Absence full of presence
Positively relative
I am done with my pretending
That One can ever be a two
Two is just a false multiplicity
Of all that isn’t true
We claim a world based on division
Of what can never be divided
We think that we can take the All that’s One
And make it double-sided
But the distance never happened
Not even in our dreams
Oneness yielding separation
Infinity bursting at the seams
I can see it all so clearly
I can feel it in my bones
I am still “In the Beginning”
And I’ve never been alone
We is a singularity
Plurality is just a method of expression
The All that’s One seen in many ways
Casting infinite reflections
That’s the Up side of Down
They are One and they’re the same
Like life and death and all that’s left
Are simply links in a single chain
Move a link and see what happens
You move one and you move them all
And so it is in every realm
Rising as we fall
© Copyright 2015 Pedro S. Silva II
When I feel led into temptation
I know it’s not from You
It’s because I’m looking at other things
That are telling me what to do
Thank You that I’m not listening
But I must admit that it’s a challenge
I’m trying to stand on what You said
But it’s hard to keep my balance
I know serving You is a narrow path
That comes with all I need included
But when I begin to look at the outer world
I start wondering if I’m deluded
Sure You always have provided
Showed me things few would believe
But maybe it’s all coincidence
And I have actually been deceived
That’s what I start to tell myself
Whenever I want to take control
Strung along by my desires
Fantasies trying to take their hold
I’m now wrestling with the Cosmos
Corporeality’s got me pinned
I’m on the verge of tapping out
And that’s just when You tap in
The Work You do’s amazing
You’re literally all over the Place
Making One out of many breaks
Through the bending of time and space
Things that seemed to be for evil
All of a sudden becoming good
Doing things I never thought You’d do
But I imagine You knew You would
Or maybe you did it for me
In response to my condition
You saw the mess I was headed toward
So You made my life Your mission
Either way I can say You’ve saved me
Time and time again
Absorbing my temptation
Thereby leading me from sin
© Copyright 2015 Pedro S. Silva II
