Dearest

i am loved

and smile like Adam

though my lips

have tasted fruit

You forgave my rough excuses

and my belly full of sin

You were there when i was aching

Fire-clad angels let me in 

so i rested neath the fruit tree

where the split had first occurred

serpents laced the branches slyly

so Your call remained unheard

i was dreaming of a chasm

gaping, fiery wound of earth

and a woman, sweating, screaming

dragon waiting for the birth

somewhere in my fitful slumber

i was blind and without hope

with a bucket, throat screaming;

Jacob's well without a rope

i ripped myself from restless sleep

as i wish You would this tree

now the shade had grown so deep

elsewhere was too bright to see

i was Jonah, but for one thing,

i had crawled into the fish

accidental lord of darkness,

made the light my aching wish

since this was no Pauline blindness

but a self-created hell,

i had brought my body willing

so i'd drag it back as well

no Job or Jacob Holy daring

nor a jar of precious oil,

mine would be a poor oblation,

useful as a tear to soil

when i came You ran to greet me

with a smile upon Your face,

placed Your cloak upon my shoulders

drew me close into Your grace

showed me scenes of awe and splendor,

showed me You lay dying too,

pulled me close and gently whispered

"look, I did this all for you"

i am loved 

and smile like Adam

though my lips 

have tasted fruit

Reviews

[asdarkeyesclose]

'showed me scenes of awe and splendor,
showed me You lay dying too,'

i've read this several times and found some new facet on each reading. the rhyme is brilliantly done, so subtle and yet you've kept this very modern. qudos!

[Ed Hart]

here's a lacy curtain of words that plays the light across my eyes

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That kind of love can't ever be anything but unforgetable, AND unregretable!