Image: "Angel in the Sun" Roy Hawkins Jr.
“Only mercy can liberate us from the madness of our determination to be consistent - from the awful pattern of lusts, greeds, angers and hatreds which mix us up together like a mass of dough and thrust us all together into the oven.” Thomas Merton, Raids on the Unspeakable
Thin lines restrain;
Thin lines restrain;
sameness
my breath contains,
till I can no longer feel
Your perfect pain!
Make me
a silent ghost -
tears in the night
ache in their souls,
their dream of fright.
Yes! make me Your angel
of the seven plagues;
with Your love
We’ll destroy bland fate.
A beautiful entreaty.....I especially like the middle stanza.
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of destroying Fate. Angel of the seven plagues did give me a little shiver...and it really made me think of Dante Alighieri's Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. Powerful writing.
ReplyDeleteMagic melody of a heart
ReplyDelete