To my just and merciful God...


Our life on earth is base enough

For you to agree to our fate.

Where lest we honor all your stuff

We choose to live without a wait

Or hope of heaven's happiness.


So what of the man who chose the path

That leads to the place of historical wrath?

Are you, forever just, to take the poor man's sin

And convert it to eternal hate, with no ransom

To save his soul?  I pray not.


In your unfathomable mercy and justice

You cannot condemn a man's God-given weakness

And lay the man eternally to hell.

For if the punishment fit the crime it shall

Give to me the simple hell of never seeing you.


The earthly standard of pain cannot compare 

To the vacuous instant of my despair

With full knowledge that I will never see your face

And then, through mercy, to disappear.


6/11/97

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