When I hungered for food

You broke bread with me

When I desired affection

You came to me

Down to the sea of a thousand faces

Flying through the air to exotic places.

You took me to Your garden

But it didn’t come without a cost

Thrones and thistles – paradise lost

Guardian Cherubim

Figs and apples

All kinds of samples.

I realized I was starving

There You were at the table – carving

Handing me a plate I was marveling

The gravy spilled

Why, I’ll never know, You were thrilled

As if the fatted calf had just been killed.

And with wings of hope I flew away

It wasn’t long I got to stay

I knew it was imminent

But I didn’t think it would be today

I now had a thousand words I wanted to say

But they were poured into a box of wet cement.

Thrown into the bottom of the deepest sea

Forgotten by You – Yet remembered by me

Can’t you see. . . . .

Can’t you see

You forgave me. . . . .

You forgave me

I never forgave myself. . . . .

I never forgave myself.

The last thing I wanted was help. . . . . .

Pride won

All the slices of bread I missed out on.

Still . . . .handing me a plate marveling

The gravy spilled

Why, I’ll never know, You were thrilled

As if the fatted calf had just been killed.

Darkness loomed

A forest fire consumed

And there I took all my idols to be burned

Paradise Returned.

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