"Seven Lamentations"

[Vasya Davidovich]

So, here is another. Also on the theme of sin and repentance. Feedback welcome.



Seven Lamentations

Lament! I wish that I could weep.
Lament! My heart is hurting sore.
Lament! My spirit is asleep.
Lament! And Satan's keeping score.

Lament! Were I to die this day
Unshriven, lost, and steeped in sin,
The demons, lo, would have their way -
They'd claim me as their kith and kin.

Lament! and weep: I'm far from God,
My sins are foul before mine eyes.
I've wandered on the pathway broad,
Become a man in beastly guise.

Lament! Oh, what will make me wake?
Oh, what will make the cold relent?
Oh, what will make my spirit break
Or make my cooling heart repent?

Lament! For there is only One
Who could my deadened soul renew,
But He's the very one I shun
By word and thought and what I do.

Lament! I would that I could cry.
My heart is groaning in my breast,
But still my eyes remain bone-dry;
The weight remains upon my chest.

Lament! For I don't seek the Lord:
Not only don't I love Him well,
Not only don't I seek reward,
But - woe is me - I fear not Hell.

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[Grand_Duchess-Elizaveta]

Very good, Vasya! You are a gifted writer.