Guyon
Douglas Blair 1951 (London)
I am here for
Saying things
About the Lord.
Most approachable.
Most adored.
And in so doing
I have clung
To Holy Writ.
No Pope's tradition.
Not a bit.
No feigned reticence
Fear to show.
I, determined Him
To follow.
Him to know.
Jesus, bearer of
All my dismal loads.
My loneliness
The Law that goads
And tries to
See me criminal
In bonds.
The chill, the darkness
The friendships gone.
But I have One
Replacing all the rest
The kindest, nearest
Teacher, the best.
And He will visit
He does so sweet.
And I have savoured
Each Holy Treat.
So, come the achings
And shivering Night.
Mine the ordinance
To pray, to fight.
These bars to hold
These bars to scold.
But broad the vistas
By Faith I'm told.
*Madame Jeanne Marie Guyon, 1648-1717. French mystic and poet much persecuted by Roman Catholicism. Imprisoned, wasting, supremely reflective.
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Written on December 02, 2022
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