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I worshipped words Paid homage Idolized their shape and form Brought my paltry gifts And laid them at the shrine Of THE GOD OF WORDS Hoping to gain favor from my idol To be touched in such a way As to imbue my simple writes With perfection and immortality Making ME A goddess in my own right! Daily The same ritual Obeisance Following the rules Soul salvation In a rhyme Penance: The purging of my inner thoughts on paper An exacting god He needed full submission An indwelling And I was willing But….. In my darkest dungeon hour Heartbroken and heart hungry Needing my god To rescue me To shine out To convey To love me…. OH, TO LOVE ME!!!! There was silence “Why have you abandoned me?” SILENCE Forsaken In life’s extreme elements Face of death moments Joyous new birth celebrations Extreme love consummations Fear frustrations In all these extremes My lips could not birth My hands could not cradle The children of my heart Emotions still born This god is dead Omnipotence farce Impotent Impotent Unable to satisfy To create new life in me A god unable But there is a WORD Living and Active Stronger than Life or Death Eternally past, present, and future Always there Omnipotent is His name Omnipresent his love Omniscient his wisdom One WORD… By which the universe came to be Every flower, shrub, and tree Every animal and lake and sea Everything By just ONE WORD The true GOD incarnate JESUS The only Word That can save ME Eileen Manassian John 1: 1 – 3, 14 1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2He was with God in the beginning. 3Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcomea it. 14The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
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