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Jan 2015
Oh, I love You
yet forever and ever
My heart floats upon a sea of sorrow
Oh, let this crass and ignorant world
go its crass and ignorant way
with its running to and fro
never knowing a feeling of love
or any true emotion
this hopeless world in all its strife
searches in vain for an answer
How it knows not
that no answer lies in war, or money, nor fame
How it searches in vain
neither does it know nor suspect
that all its answers lie in a warm embrace
of a passionate love
of one heart holding in its self
the love of another
a bottomless burning passion
that says, " I surrender all".
Oh, how I am a worthless hopeless thing
without You
a mere sea of pain and ache
whose bottom knows no end
Oh, for without You
I know all hope is lost
and better it was
I had never been born
than see the day
I loose You
to be blinded by a sea of pain and tears
Oh, how could I then live.
Oh, I have loved You
and yet love You more still
I open My heart
I hold My arms forth
hoping for Your embrace
and You turn Your heart from Me
and I am helpless
My heart sinks with longing
You have been an elusive and exotic creature
I ask Myself everyday
Why? Oh, why Me?
Why am I always
so unworthy in Your eyes
Oh, how My soul floats upon  a sea of sorrow
Why do I remain
a source of shame in Your eyes
Oh, why am I counted
as nothing in Your eyes
A lowly worm
who crawls through the dust of the earth
but Oh,  though I am counted by You
as a thing not to be looked upon
a creature of loathing
never to be looked upon
or brought into memory
My heart in its sadness says
" I forgive all".
Oh, how far into eternity
must the days pass
and how many universes must come and go
each being born and dying in its time
before Your  cold heart can come to say
" I love You".
When all of time had run its course
Oh, how I wait the melting of Your cold heart
Oh, how I am frozen
in this block of stone
this loveless hell
This bed of stone that I lie upon
But Oh, how I shall wait
as eternity rolls
as the sun burns its self to a cinder
and the stars burn and flicker out
one by one
for without You all eternity
is but a dead thing.
Written by
Olan Douglas Webb
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