Soldier Blue

             Time stops when you are near Your voice can take away my fear Your touch can wipe away my tear Or let it fall away   So when the tears come more than one Too fast for just one wiping thumb And hurting heart prays to be numbed Is love so fast to stay   Now even when a love is true Some days I find my heart is blue And all I want for you to do Is hold me close and pray   That God will hold your heart to mine And Satan's work in us He'll bind And blessings in our lives we'll find As Angels light our way J.W. Boswell Copyright 2015

When budding leaves push out the branch And falling blossoms scurry past In whirlwind as March winds blow fast Blossoms never ever last Replaced by leaves on tree adorned And Such is love so newly formed As blossoms fly amidst the thorn Love once new is life reborn

What love must be as what I've heard Is two souls that God has merged Blinded to each other's faults As if locked behind a vault Best of friends through worst of times N'er forsaking hearts that pine A morning touch and soft hello I could surely be that beau So as I kneel each night to pray I lift my palms to God and say Oh how Holy you must be Please tell me who you made for me

                                                               You'll Always be                                                                Just Three Years Old                                    ...

I Stand Before my Mother's Grave Searching for the Words I Crave To Soothe my Aching Heart Tombstone Gray, the Gentle Rain Washes Streaming Tears of Pain No Words Can I Impart What's Left Undone Words Won't Undo Simply Mother - I Love You If but My Heartbeat Were as Faint Now That I Have Come Undone My God Reveals That He Has Won No Grave Can Hold a Saint

God's Anointed Chosen son Protects and Serves Lives by the gun Pain and Hurt A Daily Prayer For Peace Throughout The Lion's Lair Battle born for God to use As Only He is Free to Choose On What Battlefield I Lie When First I Kneel and Then I Die

Into the day I cast a note Tugging on my old friends coat Looking for what longs to be A dying love to be set free Wounded heart not fully healed Taken down a path concealed Of roses blooming in a dream Now raging tears in fullest stream No words to say I'm sorry