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      To render me immortal

      Unknown

      By those around me?

      I would surmise

      We come here for complicated reasons

      None of which I completely understand

      My prayer is hear my prayer

      When I awaken from this darkness

      I hope to see your face

      Hear your laughter

      And hear you call my name

      I need nothing more

      Not a house by the waves

      Not a Lamborghini

      Not even a Performer of the Year award

      No, just you

      Just you

      Psalm Eighteen

      1 I love thee, O God, my strength.2 God is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer;My God, my rock, in whom I will take refuge;My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.3 I will call upon God, who is worthy to be praised:So shall I be saved from mine enemies.4 The cords of death compassed me,And the floods of ungodliness made me afraid.5 The cords of Sheol were round about me;The snares of death came upon me.6 In my distress I called upon God,And cried unto my God:He heard my voice out of his temple,And my cry before him came into his ears.7 Then the earth shook and trembled;The foundations also of the mountains quaked And were shaken, because he was wroth.8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils,And fire out of his mouth devoured:Coals were kindled by it.9 He bowed the heavens also, and came down;And thick darkness was under his feet.10 And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly;Yea, he soared upon the wings of the wind.11 He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion round about him,Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.12 At the brightness before him his thick clouds passed,Hailstones and coals of fire.13 God also thundered in the heavens,And the Most High uttered his voice,Hailstones and coals of fire.14 And he sent out his arrows, and scattered them;Yea, lightnings manifold, and discomfited them.15 Then the channels of waters appeared,And the foundations of the world were laid bare,At thy rebuke, O God,At the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.16 He sent from on high, he took me;He drew me out of many waters.17 He delivered me from my strong enemy,And from them that hated me; for they were too mighty for me.18 They came upon me in the day of my calamity;But God was my stay.19 He brought me forth also into a large place;He delivered me, because he delighted in me.20 God hath rewarded me according to my righteousness;According to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.21 For I have kept the ways of God,And have not wickedly departed from my God.22 For all his ordinances were before me,And I put not away his statutes from me.23 I was also perfect with him,And I kept myself from mine iniquity.24 Therefore hath God recompensed me according to my righteousness,According to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.25 With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful;With the perfect man thou wilt show thyself perfect;26 With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure;And with the perverse thou wilt show thyself forward.27 For thou wilt save the afflicted people;But the haughty eyes thou wilt bring down.28 For thou wilt light my lamp:God my God will lighten my darkness.29 For by thee I run upon a troop;And by my God do I leap over a wall.30 As for God, his way is perfect:The word of God is tried;He is a shield unto all them that take refuge in him.31 For who is God, save God?And who is a rock, besides our God,32 The God that girdeth me with strength,And maketh my way perfect?33 He maketh my feet like hinds’ feet:And setteth me upon my high places.34 He teacheth my hands to war;So that mine arms do bend a bow of brass.35 Thou hast also given me the shield of thy salvation;And thy right hand hath holden me up,And thy gentleness hath made me great.36 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me,And my feet have not slipped.37 I will pursue mine enemies, and overtake them;Neither will I turn again till they are consumed.38 I will smite them through, so that they shall not be able to rise:They shall fall under my feet.39 For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle:Thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.40 Thou hast also made mine enemies turn their backs unto me,That I might cut off them that hate me.41 They cried, but there was none to save;Even unto God, but he answered them not.42 Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind;I did cast them out as the mire of the streets.43 Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people;Thou hast made me the head of the nations:A people whom I have not known shall serve me.44 As soon as they hear of me they shall obey me;The foreigners shall submit themselves unto me.45 The foreigners shall fade away,And shall come trembling out of their close places.46 God liveth; and blessed be my rock;And exalted be the God of my salvation,47 Even the God that executeth vengeance for me,And subdueth peoples under me.48 He rescueth me from mine enemies;Yea, thou liftest me up above them that rise up against me;Thou deliverest me from the violent man.49 Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O God, among the nations,And will sing praises unto thy name.50 Great deliverance giveth he to his king,And showeth loving kindness to his anointed,To David and to his seed, for evermore.

      Someday I will know you

      You are my strength

      My power

      My light

      I like to think

      Or at least to imagine

      In the meantime

      You are only sensed

      As if you hide beyond a row of hills

      We call you our Rock

      Our Might

      Our Deliverer

      By the way

      Where were you at Gettysburg?

      Shiloh

      Fort Donelson

      Chattanooga

      Antietam

      Yellow Tavern

      Nashville

      Mobile Bay

      Five Forks

      Gettysburg

      Always that

      Before the beginning

      Of who we became

      The Battle of Camden

      Barefoot soldiers eating grass

      In the glaring Carolina sun

      The sorrows of death encompassed us

      And pressed us down

      We called upon your holy name

      As boys surrendered to the dirt

      Their brains blown to smithereens

      Innards splattered

      Dreaming dashed

      Did you hurl the lightning?

      Did you send the storm?

      We said you saved us

      Even as the majority went down.

      Will you show yourself to be merciful?

      We are a nation destroyed

      A people in anguish

      We stand convinced you will rescue us

      As we lay slain and torn apart

      We still believe in you

      We have nothing else

      Only ourselves

      And we are beaten down

      You breathed into us

      Weapons of steel

      And domination

      You offered dreams of victory

      Of the world we left behind

      Of slaves for the taking

      According

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