Tuesday, May 17, 2011

I Don't Like This

The truth is I'm not happy. I wake up everyday with a cloud over my heart. I'm lonely. I wish I did have a man put his arms around me and to love me with all his heart as long as he is one I can fully love back. I wish he was there when I wake up. I wish he sent messages to my phone late at night. I wish the reason I drag myself out of bed and walk into work late, was because I was out too late with him.

I'm bored. Unmoved and uninspired. I don't feel like doing anything.

Monday, May 16, 2011

A Blatant Truth

So it seems there's a lot of hurting going around lately and some people stewing it their hurt. For this I have some well meant, but stern words to share on this:

I wish people would realize Who they need to turn to when things go dark and that NOTHING and NO ONE in this world is going to make you happy. Contrary to POPULAR HUMAN BELIEF we were NOT made to a accommodate this world, so quit acting like that's going to change in any way, shape, or form for you, for anyone. Some seemingly harsh words, but it is what it is and people need to deal with that.

And this is directed largely at all you who intend to take on this world on your own (AKA Non-Believers) but most of you Christian's would do well to listen in as well:

Following Christ on this earth (AKA being a Christian while living in the world) isn't about being happy-go-lucky all the time and having life come so great. Life is going to suck no matter what god, fad, or idol you follow. But unlike the offers of other gods, fads, and idols following Christ grants you multipal privilages such as to have His spiritual support and relief on a personal level late at night in your bedroom in the dark in times when you need His help the most to help you get through the tunnel, because FYI this IS just a tunnel, you know - there IS another side of it and you better wake up and get on the only narrow track before the tunnel loses light and quit crying about how nothing on this earth satisfies the hunger that WASN'T MEANT to be fed by it.

Inclosing; these statements:

Being a Christian doesn't elliminate the pain and hard times in your life; it helps you to cope with it while you're here and HAVE to deal it it. But only if you use it correctly.

- Desiree` Magee

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Music and Imagination

I was swinging and I wondered if Ireland's wilderness' look anything similar to the hills in the park. I thought of the movie "P.S. I Love You" and how he has fallen in love with her almost immediately. How sweet.

"I'll be a while...ain't goin' no where, said I'll be a while..."

After I jumped off the swing I walked toward the biggest hill in the park. It didn't take long to reach the top


"We kissed that night before I left, still now it was something I could never forget..."

Once on top I looked over the park and was delighted to realize how high up I really was. The wind started to blow my hair around and it was a moving feeling.

"Looking at all or nothing, babe it's you and I...I know that I'm good for something, so let's go give it a try..."

I decided to take a stroll over the others hills and followed a path others had made in the grass over time.


"Did you open the shop? Yes. Are you Joe? Yea. You are Joe! The one and only! The one and only Joe..."

I decided to turn back toward the biggest hill. Where to now?, I thought. Oh!, the slide, yes. Toward the slide I made my way.


"It's no good, no good...to be, to be...alone....alooone..."

I climbed the ladder and looked over the park and from where I had just come. I recalled the last time I had seated myself at the top of this ladder and the picture I had taken of the ground below with my cell phone then.


"Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality..."

Perhaps Rik was right; all the Queen voices are studio-birthed.
I got a second shot of the ground below, but this time with my rainbow converse peeking from the bottom of the photo. I settled there for a little bit, gazing patiently over the park, but eventually climbed back down to make my way over the the jungle gym.


"Mama! Oooooh! I don't wanna die! I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all!"

I thought of work and of my day. I had not too long before been at evening service in the church I grew up in and decided to visit this park. It had been a while. I reached the jungle gym.

"I see a little silhouetto of a man, scaramouche`! Scaramouche`! Will you do the Fandango!"

I faced the biggest hill again. I wondered if there is an occult meaning in the words I was hearing. It wouldn't be the first time I had thought of it.

"So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye? So you think you can love me and leave me to die?"

How wonderful would it be, I began thinking if my band made it a point to take on huge songs to cover that no one else touched. But would it be wise?, after all creating original music is a priority now.


"Nothing really matters...to me...anyway the wind blows..."

I skipped over a few tracks on my iPod and hopped down from the jungle gym. The biggest hill made me feel nice, I'd like to try it again. But then, no I thought. I've been there. I should go somewhere I haven't been.


"Ooo, ooo, oooo. Ooo, ooo, oooo. Ooo, ooo, ooooOOoo..."

An orchestra played Epona's Song from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and I thought of Malon, how she said her mother had composed the tune. Then I thought of the game on a larger scale, how I missed it and how my outlook on my imagination would be different if I hadn't discovered the land of Hyrule, and how even as a young adult...I still wish I could somehow go there...


"Oo-oo-oo-oo-ooOOoo-OOooooOOoooo"

I was then coming upon the ditch I had so often driven by and told myself I would venture around some day and yes, there I was. I looked down as the ditch narrowed to the concrete stream and, how ironic! that I began to see the river entrance leading to Zora's Domain in Hyrule Field. It took me a while to figure that part out..

"Praise to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ...Our God and our King, to Him we will sing..."

I found a side walk and thought how interesting it was that the city had placed a former walking space near a ditch!, how unexpected! But as I continued on I noticed that this drainage ditch was a little different from others. I followed the concrete path and crossed the bridge it made there to connect the two sides over the water. I wished it had been raining so the water would have been higher. In my imagination it was flowing freely, I was dressed as a maiden, and I wasn't alone.


"Children of God, sing your song and rejoice! For the love that He has given us all!"

I wanted to fly. I felt God's Spirit moving around me as I ventured. Nothing mattered. Nothing needed to matter. I was just going on a walk. He and I were walking along.
The side walk made another connection, because I was now at a three-way point in the ditch. I crossed this second foot bridge.


"Great is the love that the Father has given us...He has delivered us...He has delivered us!"

I came to this area that gave me a wonderful thought; When I have children I will say "What do you see here?" and when they say "We see a ditch." I will say "I see a river. Don't you see a river here?" I will speak their language or I will teach them my own.


"We are the saints, we are the children, we've been redeemed, we've been forgiven..."

I followed the path back the way I came.


"Wandering child, so lost, so helpless. Yearning for my guidance..."

I thought of the only person I could then. For once it wasn't an unpleasant thought. Mostly I was just over whelmed with the rediscovery of my imagination although I do miss the opera. Raul was about to fight the Phantom when suddenly--


"Lovers in the long grass, look above them, only they can see where the clouds are going..."

Ah, yes. I can never say no to Enya while she so captures my heart, but instead "not now".
I saw another hill I hadn't yet climbed, skipped over a few tracks, and began walking toward it.


".........Don't... Stop..."

I returned to the ditch and walked alongside it going the opposite direction. I again wished it had been raining at least before I had gotten here. But a more predominate thought was this: What a nice place to walk with my love some day.
The further I walked I began to feel God's Spirit encouraging me to keep imagining things. So I began to look anywhere and ask myself "What do you see?"

"So the world goes round and round with all you ever knew. They say the sky high above is Caribbean blue..."

The atmosphere had become much dimmer since the time I arrived at the park and I knew it would be time to leave soon. When I walked through a small tunnel where the ditch turned a different direction I found myself walking through a French or Italian city passage way. I thought I would have a way out, but the tall grass there encouraged me to think that turning back might be a more wise idea.
Eventually I made my way up above the ditch.

"Angel eyes, I really love you so...angel eyes, I'll never let you go...because I love you, my darling angel 
eyes..."

That would be nice to hear. But just then the orchestra strings brought in the Hyrule Field Theme and again I felt that familiar heart leap-drop of wishing I could go back, go there, or both. Maybe I should ask for a Nintendo 64 controller for my birthday so I can play my favorite game again some day.
I ended my journey on the swing beside the one I began my even with and facing the opposite side of the park. "I don't like facing this side," I told myself. But I felt God saying "Try it out. Use what you see. What do you really see?"


"Jesus...worthy is the Lamb that was slain for us, Son of God and man..."

I saw four trees with some space between them. It became a clearing where two lovers stood.


"-and all the world will praise Your great Name...Oh, You're great Name..."

Then the clearing became the Garden of Gethsemine.
I saw a circle in the ground made up of concrete. I'm not sure what it was before, but I saw a medieval shooting range for archers.


"Redeemer, my Healer, You are mighty! My Savior, Defender, You are my King..."

As the song was coming to a close I knew it was time I headed home. Before I touched the ground I thought when I have children and they are old enough to speak their minds clearly and I see them playing I will ask them "What do you see? Tell me what you see in your head right now." I recalled memories of my own childhood when I saw an enchanted place, but I knew I couldn't share it with anyone and no one asked." Maybe if my mother had joined me in the rain gutter when I played with my toys I would have been able to feel that someone saw what I could see in my head... I stopped the swing and began walking toward my car.


"C'mon on, Barbie, let's go party! I'm a Barbie Girl in a Barbie world...Life in plastic, it's fantastic!"

- Desiree` Magee

Saturday, May 7, 2011

On Post

I was sitting at home reading over the news
It seems the state’s passed a new bill
That a woman seeking to abort her child
Must first have a sonogram revealed

I read a comment a woman had made
“This is stupid and a waste of our tax dollars”
It angered my heart so that a person could see
The possibility of saving a life as a bother

It’s times like this when I need you the most
We’re a dying breed, baby you and me both
When this night watch goes on and I become weary
I long for a partner to help me guard our post

I walked to the store to run an errand
It was just a short trip I figured ‘why drive?’
As I stood in line I noticed someone’s shirt
That said “CHRISTIANS TO THE LIONS”

It troubled my heart on my walk back home
I wondered how I could ever reach those people
How can I assure them of Who Christ truly is
In a world so consumed in evil?

It’s times like this when I need you the most
We’re a dying breed, baby you and me both
When this night watch goes on and I become weary
I long for a partner to help me guard our post

It seems to me there’s so much to do
I know in my heart I won’t have much strength in this battle
If I’m not fighting it with you

There are people to love and lives to change
And though I’m only one person
I know my God will see to it
That I’ll be used for His purpose

And when you come, my love I know
There will be nothing to stop us from flying
Together we’ll fight against the spirits of this world
Hand in hand we’ll help those who are dying

It’s times like then when we’ll need God the most
We’re a dying breed, baby and we need Him you know
When our night watch goes on and we become weary
It’s He who will forever guard our post

-          Desiree` Magee

Sunday, February 20, 2011

My Whole

Hold your gear as if it were me, as if it were my body and soul within your hands
Make love to me with music.

But first.

Tell me;

Would you caress the strings if it weren't what moved you?

Would you tune the pegs if it wasn't part of your soul?
Would you run your fingers up and down the neck if it wasn't your breathe you were in and exhaling
And would you delicately lie down every note and rhythm if your very existence did not live for it?


You don't play it just for fun, and don't play it because it only feels good.
Only take your instrument and express what you feel it inside...

Now take me in your arms, my body and my soul
If you don't feel what music does to you
Than have patience, learn to be in love me...

Or let me go.

Because unless I first mean much more to you
I will never give you my whole.

- Desiree` Magee

Sunday, February 6, 2011

The Floor

I see him, I can see him now
And it's getting better...

When I thought he went away
I laid on the floor
My heart felt ill
While I lay on the floor

For a while you had asked for my attention
Patience was there while I played coy
But my thoughts did remember you again
And now that I'm listening,
What will you do now?

The floor planted a seed in my heart
I won't say I'm not concerned;
I'm concerned
I want my heart to float away
For once I don't want to think at all

And now I'm hoping I have your attention
Patience is not a strength of mine
For now I wish you'd hear me calling
And come to me, because I want to see
I don't want to lie on the floor
Perhaps my heart is running again
But just maybe it's more and you're listening...
So now that I have your attention
What should I do now?

I've given in and put down my guard
And what will you do now with my heart?
What will you do now?
What will you do now?

- Desiree` Magee

Friday, January 21, 2011

More Evil

Is it okay if I'm a little scared?
Things I've never known are rising
I wonder if I'd been better off in the dark
But would I draw closer to You?
No, let me see

More evil
Who will save me from the New Love?
You will.
There won't be a hero and there won't be an awakening
So help me to be calm and try to understand
No matter what he'll do to me I'll remain in Your hand.

What if I find him to have him taken?
Who knows when demonic plans will unfold
Relying on You I have to keep it together
I know in these times I'll draw closer to You
So, let me see

More evil

- Desiree` Magee