How could I not see you
The audacity
of your
Splendour
Commanding presence
Patiently have you waited
While it seemed
More pressing
That I devote my attention
To bricks & mortar
Engineered at all levels of being
I simply renounced
The idea of paradise
Convinced of the need
Of Fortification
Before I fell prey
To the Scourge
Real or imagined
I would not fall
Until I could
No longer
Run fast enough
Or far enough
No wall high enough
To quell
The pain of separation
I looked
Around the confines
Of my cell
Dark, dank, dismal
How then could
I invite you
In here
How strange to discover
The door I was invited to knock on
Was to that of my own prison
Freedom offered incrementally
Beginning with
Allowing your light
Passage, through my now open door
Your grace and understanding
Outplayed
The voracity with which I clung
To the familiar darkness
Only when invited
You began to sweep clean
A heart turned hovel
Restoring it once again
To a more hospitable dwelling
The remaining walls
Proved no match
For the power
Of a Love
So complete
Upon
My request
Capable
Of dismantling
While transforming
All that
Was misaligned
Now in full view
Your magnificence
Catches short my breath
And reverberates through my heart
I live now
To sing your praises
And embody your grace
Won't you please
Abide in
And guide me through
A heart seeing as you
R. O'Neill (July 13, 2017)
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