I see you, mother,
dipping out from the shadows...

You let me lead your heartbeat
alongside the broken road of...

-Written July 21, 2010...

I was cleaning,
you were making...

There were never any deaths on those
cold-hearted tiles, but there was a prominent...

I don't hate you, how could I?
It's true that I have distanced...

It's exhausting to spend all my energy for the day...
This moment that hits me like a tidal wave...

there are frantic attempts to
fill the blank spaces...

I see it all stripped bare,
the altar where You sacrificed...

I could never leave you
Not even if death pressed upon us...

Blessed Savior,
Your father brought the world into life...

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I can't keep this battle up...