Hear me
read
the poem as
an MP3 file.
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read
the poem as
a YouTube video.
Video Music: Serenade for
Strings. By Antonin Dvorak.
Performed by The Advent Chamber Orchestra at The Free Music Archive
under a Creative Commons Attribution/ShareAlike license.
How might I, in
faith, do as You ask?
Innocent, I hung upon Your Word,
Great with the intention to be good.
However, here we go a different
way.
How might I
remove the righteous mask,
Opening my heart to the absurd,
Letting go what shibboleths I would,
Yet holding on to what I have to
say.
Deliver me,
then, naked to this task,
And turn away, Whom I so long have
served.
Yearning to repent, as well I should,
So let me see myself in my own
gaze.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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