Our only hope
Everyone is taking sides,
yet everyone is on the same side –
it’s our vision versus God’s.
I offer my tongue, o Lord,
for You to quell, flesh to subdue,
my sometimes thunderous heart to becalm
amidst this impossible rebellion.
Not in piety and passivity
but as a clear and dutiful course of action,
out of my compassion, such as it is,
out of my ignorance and impairment;
out of a tenuous devotion to mercurial truth.
A pledge and a prayer, I offer – to cleave
to the narrow way, Your way,
as best it might be determined,
holding out faithfully for the one great hope –
our only hope – the truth
from God’s perspective, God’s big picture.
O child, keep your promises to yourself.
Only silence should come from a grave.
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