They said,
Let God's love fill your heart,
And shine on you
With holy light.
But oh.
Oh,
So hard are the hours,
The dead hours I spend without you
And
So dark is the night.
They said,
Let God's love fill your heart,
And shame the devil
With His truth.
But oh,
Oh,
My heart is like shale,
Splintered shale that falls with my tears
Here
Without you.
They said,
Let God's love fill your heart,
Give Him your wounds
To heal them from within.
But oh,
Oh,
Let your nails break my skin,
Your red nails that make me know I'm alive
Screaming
Out my hymn.
They said,
Let God's love fill your heart,
With holy light;
But,
So hard are the hours,
So dark is the night.
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This is nice and true I like the way you laid the poem out!
ReplyDeleteIntense and the cadence adds to the intensity.
ReplyDeletesharkbutt says him just like it.
Thanks, Arts & P, and lil Sharkbutt and his foodchik!
ReplyDeleteThis one was kind of fun to write. A lady had told me that lack of physical love can be overcome by being filled with God's love. I thought, what hooey, and wrote this. God can't spoon me.
Yes Fireblossom, "God can't spoon you" but only God can inspire you to write a deeply moving and passionate poem on the truth to the saying; "Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love." It is not easy, but it is real, it is fully heartfelt, and it is fully human. To me, that is more powerful and eternal than the infatuations of our youth
ReplyDeleteAs usual, Marty my friend, you have something worth hearing to say. Thanks for stopping in and commenting. :-)
ReplyDeleteA obsessively romantic hymn-poem,
ReplyDeleteas only you can write shayfire,
your heart shows beautifully.
It moved. The poem. And me.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful, but nawwww, they said to come over & let Spazticus carry you away on her vessel.... ;)
ReplyDeletebtw, I know you've already rec'd it, but I ♥ your blog too! =)
Thank you, Cynthia, my dear sister Nichole, and Lil Bit the scripture scholar!
ReplyDeleteThanks also to Lil Bit for the I Love Your Blog nomination!
The lonliness is so apparent in this piece!
ReplyDeleteNice!
Pamela
Very well expressed. I do not think that God's love can replace human love. Both are important...but different!
ReplyDeleteFAN-freaking-TASTIC! The emotion throbs, and I love the last two lines especially. Wonderfully done!
ReplyDeleteThe last two lines say it all.
ReplyDelete"So hard are the hours,
So dark is the night."
This is a poem filled with so much feeling! And, as another poet said, loneliness.
I like the imagery and the intense emotion you show in this poem.
ReplyDeleteSo beautiful and sad and filled with longing...
ReplyDeleteOh, "they" say so many things. While filling oneself with God's love is nice in theory, to the heart tried by pain, having someone tangible by your side is much more comforting, I think.
that's super beautiful!
ReplyDeleteHow goes it in the light of day, Shay? Another brand new morning is here! I hope good things happen to you today:)
ReplyDeleteGreat write...there is passion and there is passion....let them be fulfulled in accordance....bkm
ReplyDeleteI really like this poem. So long are the hours, so dark is the night indeed without human love. God's love trancends time and space, which I guess is why it is more difficult for us humans to feel. He could spoon your soul maybe? (smiles!)
ReplyDeleteFireblossom this has me almost in tears, I have missed someone this much... sometimes writing about it is the only way to heal huh?
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