To Marry a Whore

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- for Hosea

I.

Return to me.

You who wears darkness

Like a wedding gown,

Who calls dust and

Ashes sweet friends.

Exchange your wasteland

For Eden,

Your thirst for Plenty,

Your wars for Peace.

Dance like David

as the tent of

YHWH returned

From the enemies of God

With rolling heads

To pave the weary way.

The nations did not know.

They did not turn.

It is not so

With you.

II.

You have been

Bought with the spoils

Of the universe, with

The wine of heaven.

I sold myself

On our wedding day.

Sold my anger,

My fairness, my wrath.

What do you hold

In your hands

That I did not

Give you?

Even your very name

Is borrowed.

Not even life

Can you claim.

III.

You were led

Into darkness

To see Light.

This is why you are here.

Do not trade a complex

Question

For a simple answer.

Neither stop the asking.

Only remember:

life is a

Rolling shadow

With fire behind

And an ecstacy

Unnamed

Ahead.

--Fall 2009--