A Lament

You are there when hope fails.

As relentless as dust in the desert.

You, the architect of Artic desolation,

Biding time with plans

For the expanse of a soul laid bare.

Is it not still enough now?

Must more be planed from my ruin?

Can’t You, the above all You, build with spoiled stone,

With storm-splintered timber,

With quake-stressed steel?

Precision and purity ache as snow under sun.

Grace is a forgotten dream lisped

From children’s mouths in innocence.

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