Joseph P. DiMino Poet Free verse

I Come Nearer You

I come nearer You
not for fear of lethal 
wrath (fire and brimstone
is not an endearing
persuader) 

knowing damnation 
never more than a thought 
away; even this realization
(having read the Revelation)
has never been enough 
to alter my deep clay pace;

this is not why
to You, and to You, alone, 
I pray…

but I run to You 
after having tried 
my own proven
feeble-way; 

I come to You with 
clearer eyes; as my
ego philosophy dies, 
impaled on its own
lance of lies...

falling on its own 
long-overdue demise... 

world appeal now
seeming smaller when
compared with my own
repenting sighs—as my
once alternative gods 
continue to shrivel: 
lowly retreating
admitting defeat;

I come to You,
as one looking not
above, but as one
having determined, 
there is no
life worth pursuing
outside Your 
benevolent love….

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