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Aswim In Love

I have been redeemed from young love's wreck. The call and beck of your heart: redeem, heal. Numbed the feel and lie of unwanted/ unworthy. Soul scurvy was every thought in mind and heart. But I start again knowing love is all that is eternal. And as a kernel of truth infects this barren field of mine, another line is drawn in the dirt between truth and lie. Claw and tooth they fight for the victory of my Amen. Do you ken? That a thousand lies are like the sand on the shore? And sure they abound, but truth is the surf in which we swim, and dim is that sand beneath our bellies. And under the current, the lies ever recurrent surface once more. Only to be washed, lost again. As the tide pulls us away once more...

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