Friday, October 23, 2009

O Painful Pain: a poem for His Broken

O painful Pain you teach me well,
Bringing me down to the depths of hell.

Scrounging around on the bottom of it,
Grasping and searching to escape this shit.

O searing thorn driven through my flesh,
Opening wounds and tightening my chest.

When will it end and let me be,
O God, my Lord, please help me see.

O painful Pain this is only a scratch,
Christ suffered much more on behalf of this wretch.

So onward I go, knowing only too well,
God's ransom's been paid to save me from hell.

by Hilary D'Elia

1 comment:

  1. Wow - I get It!! Did you write this, Hilary? It is a horrible beautiful expression. I thank God for you whenever I think of you.
    Ruth Anne

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