Silhouettes in sunset

Silhouettes in sunset

Where clouds o'rhead

Color the expanse

With their iridescent trance 

So the last rays of sunlight 

Descend upon the cityscape

Soaring upon the wing

My soul sings the wonders 

Of your majesty

Here through this portal of flight 

My eyes delight 

In thy beautiful shades

Of sunset

-Joshua Lee Foist

To thee I die day by day

To thee I die day by day

To me I die as I cry as I pray

No more illusions 

No more idols

My desires are passing away

My selfish ambitions no more

May they not become me

May they not run me

For a love I have oft sought

I have long forgot

While I have stayed 

In this desert land 

Dreaming dillusions of oases

Long ago where no more remain

Those days are gone

We grow we move on

Though the road ahead

Seems uncertain 

This truth is certain

No more hiding

No more idlying

In my ideals

That which pain

Hath proved can

Also heal

My doubts

Repeal my 

Hopes

For only one can fill

Only one hath brought

Me all this way

Though oft have I 

Sought to stray

No doubt

No depth of

Deceit can

Remove your love

From me

Your love alone

Hath saved me

So cling I to your

Faithful embrace 

Grace upon grace

Tis enough to know

You are here

Through all doubt

And fear

Your love alone

Conquers all

Till death becomes me

And life is full found 

Set free 

Thy joy enough

Thy peace to calm

My every storm 

That come

-Joshua Lee Foist

Now to that which is hidden

Now to that which is hidden

Of old things forbidden

My mind made new

In that which is you 

For all that which was before

Must I abhore 

My old self seeking its own 

May it no more greave

But only to you may it cleave

Thy life made new

Thou who art true

Draw me near to you

For long my mind

Doth seek what it can find

Though it findest not

That which it ought

My ways destroy

My thoughts employ

Darkness and death 

Though this faint breath 

Of existence remains

Thy stripes and stains

So heal me

Thy ways reveal me

May my joy come true 

May it be found in you

And all which is discontent

Of these may I repent

Let not my callus life

Be a strife 

For all of which I long

May thou be my only song

E'en a tender helper

May ne'er know

Thy spirit be my guide

Thy hope I abide 

No matter the desert 

My delight

In thy love thy life

I recite

Day by day

How I long

I pray to wait

For you

Thy ways

Become mine

Thy thoughts

In me fill

That I calm

And be still 

To abide

In thy will

For all the breath

Of life long

This my one song

To remain steadfast

In thee oh my

Savior King

-Joshua Lee Foist

Through the chill of winter's eve

Through the chill of winter's eve
I hope and strive to believe
Yet all my strength alone
Cannot reprieve me
Of who I am
Instead

Yet in the dark
Of chilling ice
My warm windowed
Visage finds me here
Quickening to come

And be with thee
Though oft my heart
Doth strangely see
For only itself
Complacency

Though still
Thy sure found
Chemistry begins
To work in me

Thy love
And grace
Doth not care
My woes
Hath come
To warm
And cleanse

So ripe the morn
And not forlorn
The taste of paradise
When look upon
The pearly plain
Tis hope there not
In vain

So soft then sooth
My aching bones
And breathe thy
Benevolence broad
My soul

Yea flutter in
My floundering
Heart and hem
Me deep within

No other love
Can hold my
Tapestry true 

No stronger cord
Can cut so deep
As you

For thou
And thou
Alone

Thy name
A shudder
And a wonder
All

Did form
The earth
And all
That grow

So strum in me
Thy melody
And play
Thy tune
Through all
Of time

That I may one
And only serve
The one and true
Divine

-Joshua Lee Foist