When Pure Light Upons You

Ten years pale in fearful red
Concentrate to one sharp dark
Sever stretch of past and ghost
Future into shard and want

You feared for your life
I feared for mine
But a different kind

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Teeth gleam black in laugh
Forest edge red with frost
All that is placed before
the One Task is lost

You feared for your life
I feared for mine
But a different kind

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Dark-miracled healing
Wanting dustly success
Suffer Love of the Spirit
Only then to forget

You feared for your life
And I feared for mine
But a different kind

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When pure Light upons you
Then storms underneath
My hands tremble in distance
Despite gnashing of teeth

Does His hand then withdraw
Or remain?

You feared for your life
I half-took back mine

So you gave yours to Him

And continue to give

I am grateful

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Johannes Fort lives in North Carolina.