- Mar 25, 2023
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There are four exits
but only one way out,
among these ancient trees
olive-strung yet arid
He is born to the world
and abandoned within it,
while the wounded heart
proffers to eternity,
and these desperate prayers
are like windswept leaves
half-seen in final twilight
within wandering pale clouds.
The distance between
Him and me, is like
the endless moment
between prayer and answer;
the distance between
soul and heaven
is the audible pause
in the poet's throat,
and the fulcrum of
devotion is a final
syllable from better
men to worse:
a fleeting blessing
of the reluctantly
anointed upon His
tortured followers,
like light morning dew
upon proud and resistant
trees whose roots hold fast
to a broken world.
but only one way out,
among these ancient trees
olive-strung yet arid
He is born to the world
and abandoned within it,
while the wounded heart
proffers to eternity,
and these desperate prayers
are like windswept leaves
half-seen in final twilight
within wandering pale clouds.
The distance between
Him and me, is like
the endless moment
between prayer and answer;
the distance between
soul and heaven
is the audible pause
in the poet's throat,
and the fulcrum of
devotion is a final
syllable from better
men to worse:
a fleeting blessing
of the reluctantly
anointed upon His
tortured followers,
like light morning dew
upon proud and resistant
trees whose roots hold fast
to a broken world.