Indebted

Your [[love]] is [[light]] focused
in my [[heart]], that first messenger
at last arrived to take the [[signed]] [[will]]
from this bewildered debtor
and make certain deliverance
by dint of one declaration,
before the father of our [[line]] turns
the magnifying heat to flame
and what beats in me is [[burn]]t up
beside the sacred house rebuilt, right
where steadfast ants last buried a seed
deep beneath the black keystone,
only to [[be]] [[broken]] free
by this prehistoric [[holy]] fire,
returned to sing its imperfection.


Traces

  • Working with this light

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