SCOTT ALEXANDER MCKENZIE

Imagine: hope encased within thy frame,
So full, you thought you’d never hold it in,
A love, the kind that sets thy heart aflame,
And settles all torment once held within,

Imagine: peace delivered on a plate,
Serenity of heart that’s served to eat,
An herb that cools thy temper… to sedate,
Could anything so simple be so sweet?

Now picture Yahweh beaming from a face, 
That unrestricted love of God Almight,
The root of all discord it doth displace,
While angels on thy soul they might alight,

You know now of this love that reaches me,
My wish is that it too shall be with thee.

- Scott Alexander McKenzie

Blue is this ardent ocean pounding sand, 
Polychrome sprays of my atomic love,
For you, so bright, illuming blue skies grand, 
With hope to call a blessing from above,

Blue is the sapphire sparkle of thine eyes,
Whose passion seeks the willing core of mine,
Amid the sound of these romantic cries,
To find the love we like to call, "divine,"

But blue that paints this battered, sorry, soul,
What can’t let go of thee who stole my heart,
Who sailed through this but useless young atoll,
And cut through deep blue sea to make a part,

That blue… laments the very day we met,
And begs blue night on which he will forget.

- Scott Alexander McKenzie