For God.
Dear God, I want to kneel before you
In humble supplication
My mouth, open, a shallow well, a bruised orifice
My back bent, forward or backward
My eyes closed tight
My head held in the clasp of your gentle hands.
I want to feel your warming touch
Your awesome power, entering, leaving
My body trembling, shaking, a broken conduit
My throat, tight and wet, opening
My voice dissolving into the incomprehensible
My eyes closed but seeing
Small sparks
The world spinning, suspended
Like light and air and water
My spirit rising and rising
And falling and falling.
Dear God, I want to kneel before you
And worship between your feet
I want to stretch and stretch and turn and turn
And have your fair arms wrap around me
And hear you say, “Here I come.”
And answer to you, “Come into me.”
And feel that warm flooding
And swallow
And say, “Amen, Amen.”
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9 Comments
Colossus
February 03, 07:21Ok?
Let’s all agree this is a prayer, yeah?
Pink Panther
February 03, 08:15Lol. Sure. Let’s.
Fineman
February 03, 07:34The poet’s name complements the poem. My church mind was shaking all through the read. Lol.
Mandy
February 03, 08:10Priest, please recite this during morning devotion, and give us feedback on how that went. ??
Smart
February 03, 14:34Ewooooooo…. please do not blasphem with God biko… ah ah warris alldis
Dimkpa
February 03, 15:19I will be your God and you will be my… bitch?
Malik
February 04, 03:47*priest
Shawn
February 10, 13:44yass God!!!
God QUEEN of Dragon
September 23, 12:46Dear priest.
U are an awesome and amazing writer,
And yes for the first time I read myself having true intimacy with the one true God.