PRACTICAL PRESENCE

PRACTICAL PRESENCE

I appear to represent you, yet I am not sent of thee

A form of godliness indeed, the power therefore is lacking

I speak the language of the court, I am known in the royal parlance

Respected for office and authority, but deep within, I am hollow

Filled with emptiness and void, nothingness ravages my mind

Troubling my thought and meditations, channeling them in directions

That are marked for destruction

If I plead for you to avenge my enemies, I dread my death

For I have become an enemy to myself and my neighbor

I beg thee Father to behold in mercy and love divine

My retched self and soul, not just to cleanse but make me anew.

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