To Whom I write

To Whom I write                                                                                

Sometimes, I lose track of my soul

writing this poetry, believing words

are the goal and for others

I’m spilling (like blood from a vein)

ink upon the page, but I’m reminded

at the heel of every missive –

O child of God – to Whom I write

and to whose benefit I pursue

this circuitous alchemy of words.

Lord, You leave me no choice –

by that I am ever tormented

and for that I’m ever grateful. 

You keep shutting the door

to any possibility of another life. 

Hewing it down, accompanying me

in my worldly pursuit, as I sort

through the muddled vagaries of Illusion,

renounce the false and cling to the true

and, among the history of seekers,

renowned and anonymous, take my place.

O child of God, there are only two – child

and Father – until there is only One.