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I looked and looked
And yet my heart yearned more
Looking for pleasure greater than before
So many faces, so little time
How my heart races, to make each one mine.
Each day my eye feasts anew
As I drink deep the lustful wine.
Wherstwile inside soul and sinew
Do wither with passing time.
Burned by guilt, consumed by shame
Before Him I must present my name
And a heart that loved another
Causeth the very Earth to shudder
And I name myself His lover?

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

Like No Other

How wide one opens the door to his heart, to let another inThus deep does he risk, the dagger be thrust withinBut He who values worthless pebbles as pearls so fineWidens His guard so much more, lest hurt befall this…
October 2, 2024

No Words

To beauty capture, no greater world did I findThan the cadent word, the cantic rhymeTo give expression to the ineffable, depth to that unfathomedAll of beauty, great and small, thus embodiedI stand speechlessUnable to find the words for He who…
October 2, 2024