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Seize the Water IV

In the weeks after a love
Is lost, one finds the Holy Dove.
She speaks advice, so wisely known:
‘Don’t falter in your righteous throne!
That night of love you sorely miss,
So longing for that first sweet kiss;
Just seize the water, brave and strong:
Eternity is not too long.’

Seize the Water III

In the early hours of this morn,
I listened to the Kronos play the music of Lamb and Pärt. I heard
A strange thing: a knowledge
That I could destroy a love.
So many secrets and not enough time to
Break a promise. I long for forgiveness,
Often to the point of pain -
Yet I knew that my trust was unending. O God!
I am powerful: I know this,
And I hate the other ones. But I know
I am worth more. I am pure.
I am the unending tide.

Seize the Water II

The sun arose: each ray bespoke,
Though marriages will loss evoke.
Each step I take is like the sound
Of sea about my fortress, drowned.
The organ, bleak, beneath the tide
Tells of God, His love beside.
The night has come again, and see:
La cathédrale est engloutie.

Seize the Water I

Love: I cannot master you. As
Water washes through and through. As
Life is just a death with breathing;
Your breath soft and so deceiving
My skin. Who could want for more?
Those, I see, who I implore
To see what looks them in the face:
You, my dear, are in my place.