So often changeth

So often changeth
These many desires
In me I have sought

Yet thee
Ever remaineth
Thee changeth not

So am I caught
Between the spirit
And what I want

My desires often
Fade from one passing moment
To the next which is but here
And then surely gone

Such waste
These precious few hours
Polluted in pride and petty perfection
Which can never achieve
All that I hope and believe
Tis wasted
For this instant satisfaction

Indeed it too
Hath near but lost
All attraction

And now addiction
Hath taken me
With its affliction

And I am bound too it
By pure fear and submission
It hath cost me that

Oh, to be free
To follow after
That which I once knew
Was faithful and true

Did cost me little
And much
Yet gave me
Everything

All desire
Satisfied
Fully

And found
In faith
Within that one
Who restores
And renews
All joy
And longing
To its proper
Place

So the soul
May at last
Rest
At peace
Within
That sweet
Heavenly
Grace

-Joshua Lee Foist

So sit I here intently and still

So sit I here intently and still
Gazing into what my heart longs to feel
This touch, this ache
And panic in me doth hesitate

For I approximate
What desire in me
Cannot fully create
I linger in this pool
Where pleasures
Are but tattered treasures
Void of their value and virtue

Once this rose did bud and blossom
But now tis torn
By its thorn
Forgotten and forlorn

In these quiet moments
My heart doth soften
And shed all this doubt
And delusion
From callous and confusion
And long for some conclusion
Some hope that may lie ahead

Where to these waters
I can tread
Where I can quench
The thirst within
It doth beckon me
With its sweet savory substance

To come take my fill
To be full
And satisfied
Forever in its drink

May this heart
Oft diluted
By the dismal decay
Of the day
Come quickly away
And seek for that
Which will not
Pass away

Yes rush
To those streams
Where one's broken dreams
Are reborn
Where all longing
Finds release
As it rests
In this quiet peace
Here beside these
Reviving waters

-Joshua Lee Foist