A Hermit's Summit: A Self Study.
PostPosted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 9:44 pm
I am currently attempting to write poetry from a subjected position...this is hard and leaves my langauge all stilted and whatnot. So, please give me a moment...yes, there it is...Now, to writ:
I write my thoughts from beneath the sky in the valley, squatted in abject praise, a song of dispair and worship intersplayed across my ruined lips. I am not a prince of somber night, with my mourning clothes dancing in the moonsplatter, nor some becalmed king of light with feather-furrows in my hair. I have thrown down all such claims, all titles, and become Hungry, Hooded, A Wayfarer, People-less, Plot-less, Place-less. I kneel in bafflement before a broken crown, my own offerings up to a more eternal throne...caught in the rythem of my blasphemy, I ignore the arc-lights pouring through the curtains of this, my abandoned temple....My place was in the light, then the night, now I squat in the dying of the day, worshipping the Son from my uncomfortable place in the valley of Death.
There is a tittering thing that I have broken through, a glass window-vault which had the pretense of being the last place of interest....There is a feeling, which bound in mortal words is still indescribable, a holy and sacred thing, untouchable, in which induces in me what I have so named a Hermit's Summit, a high place in the low soul, where the holiness of God and the true humility of Man commingle in the effluence of ether...
There is a Turning approaching me, an Event, a Time in which the unknowable meditations of God's Own Heart will be given like a silver gift to me, a beggar resting in his own fluids. I would rather cry with open despair to God then speak to him of goodness, for I feel my excuse for servitude breaking my coward's back. I carry my own weight no-where, for GOD has taken me up...yet still I demand at differing times to be set down, to get back up, to fall...and to get back up again.
How can I worship faithfully? How can I come to him knowingly? How can I sing to him in a pure tongue? All I have to offer is battered stones and broken oaths; all I have is naught to him.
God...My Father...Yeshua....JHVH...
I am a Hermit, a Wayfarer, A Mendicant and a Vagabond. Yet am I holy? I am not. Am I righteous? I Am NOT! I am beset by demons, intra-personal and extra personal, I am broken and bent and routed and discarded; when will God feel I have finally failed him? For if he does not know how often I fail, then it is wise for him to love me, yet should he know, how can he continue?
What will it take to push you away? What will it take to free my heart from your tangled Holy promises and take back the creeping black? I can't help but be rescued, Lord!
Am I Holy?
Am I Righteous?
Am I GOOD?
These are the questions, not to God, but OF God.
He Is Holy.
He Is Righteous.
HE.
IS.
GOOD.
Yeshua Machiah, Hallelujah Amen.
And.....
Amen.
A Second Piece:
Oh God, why do you bother?
It's the devil I love!
Hell I lust after!
God, I give my Harlot's heart away at a moment's notice;
when do I not belong to some fools fallacy?
I go lusting after fals gods
like the kids of Israel
yet always I come back
broken backed to you
Lord, when does your love cease?
where does it end?
Baffled, I turned to the light and saw you smile; or did I?
I dreamt of you, I screamed to you, and was not heard...yet was I?
Father....Father...Friend.
Amen.
I write my thoughts from beneath the sky in the valley, squatted in abject praise, a song of dispair and worship intersplayed across my ruined lips. I am not a prince of somber night, with my mourning clothes dancing in the moonsplatter, nor some becalmed king of light with feather-furrows in my hair. I have thrown down all such claims, all titles, and become Hungry, Hooded, A Wayfarer, People-less, Plot-less, Place-less. I kneel in bafflement before a broken crown, my own offerings up to a more eternal throne...caught in the rythem of my blasphemy, I ignore the arc-lights pouring through the curtains of this, my abandoned temple....My place was in the light, then the night, now I squat in the dying of the day, worshipping the Son from my uncomfortable place in the valley of Death.
There is a tittering thing that I have broken through, a glass window-vault which had the pretense of being the last place of interest....There is a feeling, which bound in mortal words is still indescribable, a holy and sacred thing, untouchable, in which induces in me what I have so named a Hermit's Summit, a high place in the low soul, where the holiness of God and the true humility of Man commingle in the effluence of ether...
There is a Turning approaching me, an Event, a Time in which the unknowable meditations of God's Own Heart will be given like a silver gift to me, a beggar resting in his own fluids. I would rather cry with open despair to God then speak to him of goodness, for I feel my excuse for servitude breaking my coward's back. I carry my own weight no-where, for GOD has taken me up...yet still I demand at differing times to be set down, to get back up, to fall...and to get back up again.
How can I worship faithfully? How can I come to him knowingly? How can I sing to him in a pure tongue? All I have to offer is battered stones and broken oaths; all I have is naught to him.
God...My Father...Yeshua....JHVH...
I am a Hermit, a Wayfarer, A Mendicant and a Vagabond. Yet am I holy? I am not. Am I righteous? I Am NOT! I am beset by demons, intra-personal and extra personal, I am broken and bent and routed and discarded; when will God feel I have finally failed him? For if he does not know how often I fail, then it is wise for him to love me, yet should he know, how can he continue?
What will it take to push you away? What will it take to free my heart from your tangled Holy promises and take back the creeping black? I can't help but be rescued, Lord!
Am I Holy?
Am I Righteous?
Am I GOOD?
These are the questions, not to God, but OF God.
He Is Holy.
He Is Righteous.
HE.
IS.
GOOD.
Yeshua Machiah, Hallelujah Amen.
And.....
Amen.
A Second Piece:
Oh God, why do you bother?
It's the devil I love!
Hell I lust after!
God, I give my Harlot's heart away at a moment's notice;
when do I not belong to some fools fallacy?
I go lusting after fals gods
like the kids of Israel
yet always I come back
broken backed to you
Lord, when does your love cease?
where does it end?
Baffled, I turned to the light and saw you smile; or did I?
I dreamt of you, I screamed to you, and was not heard...yet was I?
Father....Father...Friend.
Amen.