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I will not admit I love you

Even though that is what I feel

For fear of feeling like every other

Who did feel something so real

I will not say I love you

Even though I truly do

For that is to speak a word too often spoken

to One I wish to offer something new

I will sing no more ballads

Though love drives me to verse

For every song tells the same

However long or however terse

So I will just keep silent

And revel in the quiet pleasure

That no one feels about you quite like me

That is both my gift and my treasure

My ocean and my sea

Faltering Steps

I wandered hither and yonder, faltered whither astrayTill Mercy let me no longer wanderAnd settled my tired feet upon this pure way
October 2, 2024

The Journey

Amongst sages and scholars, saints and loversStudents and servants, martyrs and callersProvidence did afford so opportune a travelThat this tangled quilt so woven may unravelLaden with sin outstripped by only remorseOf how things should have been had I stayed the…
October 9, 2024

Raising the Axe

Every idol that I hatedI found staring at me withinThe house that You had createdTo be fully free from sin None the world’s watersCan cleanse this impurityNone the mountain’s firesCan burn away this infidelity It needs not hesitant whispersWhen one…
October 2, 2024