Monday, December 10, 2012

Peace Offering

It is always gentle and persuasive
Penetrating
The Invisible Force
My Chariot of Morning
The answer to my doubts is always the same
It is always you.
Outside I am Satan’s puppet in a crude Punch and Judy
Inside my tears soak the cloth on your shoulder.

My dream of escaping has me webbed in
Webbed into a perennial history of defeated escape
There is no way out, is there?  If there is, it is not in me.
So I pose a sad question for you, with a multiple choice of bereavements
Although deep within I know You wait for me
With the golden gift You bestow
Perhaps I doubt myself
But I do not doubt Thee

You are taking shape in my soul so invisibly, so slowly!
Like the rough diamond whose eyes are still closed
And I am so busy trying to fathom you I hardly recognize--

You are stealing me
Quietly, You fathom me

I have ceased to insist
How
There are no answers.  Only admissions.
I wait.
I desire You
I go on
Nothing else matters.
You are all my desire

Like a swimmer who swims, seeing only the sea
I swim yet for the shore--
So do I desire Thee

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