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Poetry

Love Worshipful (a Midnight Repose)

By

Jon

Jon writes from Marngoneet Correctional Centre, in Victoria.

Dan Musat for Unsplash

Some say Love is overrated

It has no relevance anymore I say

I know more than love unbound

I can make these prayerful sounds

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More than Love my darlin'

I believe in you

Through separation station

In life and strange curfew

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For belief is more than desire

Desire is the answer key

I await that friendly fire

When your eyes embrace me

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Belief in you majestic

Realistic in all respects

In your life complicated

I must have some effect

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I know I have worshipped

Your picture on the wall

Worship has much emblazonment

There I made it fall

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Do not scare belief

It is pure and sane

Beyond Loves depths

I will worship once again

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Your countenance pure

Your eyes so demure

A picture is a cure

I am really sure

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I Love you my darlin'

Beyond this starlight

My belief relating

To more than plain sight

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on this frozen midnight

to a moon above

my belief is sacrosanct

it answers to Love

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and my sacred lady leads me on...

This
piece
was originally printed in the
April 2025
edition of About Time.
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