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P. Walsh
Although you pull me
and call my name,
although I have listened
and in listening found a comfortably agonizing place;
Although I have hid in your demonic, mechanical bosom,
and raged and sorrowed against your murderous ways,
although there is truth in my rage, truth in my sorrow,
I have allowed you to drain me, consume, leave me empty.
And I've awoken in horror as if from an idiot's dream
to find my love away.
I turn from you now to face and embrace my heart.
I turn to look inward
and though you call me I will not hear.
And though you fill my eyes I will not see.
I turn and turn to embrace the hand of God
forever awaiting embracing.
I turn to enter the eye of God
forever awaiting vision.
I turn to eternity and I banish you from my eyes.
I turn at last, at last, to face myself,
to face, at last, my soul.



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