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Jul 2016
Oh, when these pains of life
engulf me and hunt my soul
and I have become like a frightened deer
fleeing from the bow of the hunter
and there is no place to find my rest
then I seek your love
like a starving man seeks food for his body.
Oh, then only love can comfort me!
Oh, when the sky turns as hard and dark as iron
and stones rain down from the sky
oh then only love can comfort me!
Oh, when I lay upon a bed made from the finest silk
and all the world lay at my beck and call
only then love can comfort me!
Oh, all the days that live in my memory
that I have trod upon the earth
as my feet have trod the burning sand
searching this barren earth for a heart
that would to me ever be true
giving my life meaning
in the face of a cruel meaningless world.
Oh, to me such a heart is a holy cup
into which I pour all my hopes
and all my love.
Oh, such a wine of pure passion
and pure love
that I would flow from my longing heart!
Oh, to drain all my being into that heart's lovely cup!
For all my passion and all my longing and all my love
oh how it is the very fabric of all that I can.
Oh, you are the only rose
that grows within my heart!
And all that I can is so in love
with all that you are!
Oh, the day I first found you
is the day that my soul was born once again
in all its fiery passion!
Oh, how my body trembles to your soft electric touch
and ignite all this hopeless longing in my heart!
Oh, I am so hopeless without you
that it is better for me
that I had never been born
than see  all your love
and all my hope slip forever away!
Oh, how your love burns all my fears away!
And my passion takes me higher
than all the dreams my sleeping soul
has ever given birth to.
Oh, you are like a dream sweeter
than all the wine
and potions that are made to comfort the soul
could every weave within my slumbering brain.
Oh, high above the clouds and these starry skies
I find my holy bliss with you!
Oh, only in the love of your arms
can  I find my eternal home
the treasure my heart has always longed for.
And only in you can I find the love
I have always searched for
in my life upon this lowly earth.
Oh, my love for you shall last
till the heavens turn to dust
and the earth crumbles away.
Written by
Olan Douglas Webb
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