Love and truth

Love, the one way my heart but knew

Or so once I thought and from it inspiration drew

That I should be the lover of souls yet never, apart or in equality

Yoked and burdened by that which my spirit loathes, adrift from Christ in shrinking it drove

Me far and away from, before the driving rain

All of truth and to lies it dwelt, like lightning before thunder

I know now the signs, the markings of wonder, the peace withheld

So to you who once I thought I was, I bid adieu, for in no part of you I withdrew

From this world from life, cruel and despised, cast aside

Yet not from your sight, Oh God, for you ever see,

Even the despicable things, the wayward path, where I thought myself free

I understand now, that in the end, this was the way you made it to be

My fortress now destroyed, ever so fatefully

The last bastion of illusion set aside, not renewed and now despised

For who I once thought love was only a shadow and lies

Now with ramparts laid low, Love is the one way my heart knows

You oh God are love incarnate, the truth, the life, the way of righteousness

Apart from you love cannot be known, only its diminishing fading, and tattered glory,

Within you is love complete, and in all my wandering I am now replete

With love abounding, timeless and astounding, in your spirit always increasing and abiding, founding

The formation for your will, the image of the son, ever self-denying

For in you have I found, that all true love flows, over all and presiding

To the good of all who would be yours, worshiping in spirit, truth, residing

Allowing no quarter for the flesh to hide or decide, that which is yours to define