Monday, August 10, 2015

Softly

Its mercy for mercy, often conflicted, striving for closure.
Sudden remorse, stirs regrets, where time becomes a
friend. I come to You, filled with You, counting wounds.
You deign for souls, a spinning faith, where knowledge
is keen. I thrum a wing, to circle right, every deed for
sight. You heal to fly, my breath and mind, soaring
through darkness. Your tunic glows, for pressing throngs,
where virtue has left You. I’m close afar, afar and close,
traipsing towards a chariot. Wherefrom, a soul—to raise
a child, to possess the Light? I come first, a desert soul,
the body of a nomad; and I want for more, where more is
rain, a system of opposites. What was done, a tragic fail,
for life was veiled to see? I read to feel, and feel to read, to
prove for gracious wings. It’s ever this frame, to save a
soul, adrift a faceless gate. Cry not for wrong, my song of
woes, but more for grains; for life is brief, the brief of life,
filtered through trials.     

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