Coime Oblivion, "Mom's Gentle Thoughts"

EFFIGI

by Amy MacLim

Yonder I behold you
Demigod who dwells
In etheral impossibility
Bounded by neons and neons\
That even mirages can't delve.

Why had the warmth
Of your lifelike nearness
Thawed the glaciers
Of attrocious winter,
The biting frosts to the fires
Of your seeming presence?

Why had you descended
On wings of dream -
Eyes that seemingly were lifelike
Glinted with ecstatic lovelight
Dancing beyond fathomless ebony depths?

Why had the fallacious granite bastion
That rose as time's inevitable aftermathe
Started to crumble under the strain
of your soaring might?

Happy I am to behold you
through that crystalline wall
That mercifully divides us
For from hence freedom is mine
To worship a forlorn god
Within the somber walls
Of a heathen heart -
For you are a symbol of a life
That once was not -
The parallel of fate
That never will.

- To love and to treasure
In a fashion
That weathers all seasons
And knows no age
Forever, and ever
And ever.

In the face of dire circumstance
When the storms of indecisions
Lash upon the ramparts of a graoning will
Let me be as rock, frim and unyielding
scarred though by the season's beat, but unmoved
Like the house You built upon a rock.

Where I must scar, keep me aground
Where there are tears, let me find joy in them
Where there is plenty, let me share it
With those who in want are pastured.

teach me to discern beauty
Even in vile and horrid ugliness,
Joy in the most abject misfortune,
To love and forgive the ones
Who hate most.

teach me to bear Thy cross
Taking each ensuing travail,
Every scourge and every fall
Uncomplaining and resigned
To the power of Your omnipotent sway.

Guide me on to accept Your will
And say from the depths of my heart
Sincerely and without reserve -
Thy will be done this done!

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COME OBLIVION

by Amy MacLim