I wrote this poem today. My usual poetry site is down for the count atm, so I'm posting it here. I might want to change it later.... but I wanted to get it out, because it's what's on my mind right now.

The verbage might seem a bit premature. Chowon is neither my wife, nor pregnant, but she is teaching me what the Bible means when it compares God's love for the church to a man's love for his wife. By loving me and accepting my love, she is teaching me what it means for God to love us. The poem takes a bit from my understanding of a God-centered relationship. I imagined myself married when I wrote it.


We are so small
but when I look at you
I see beauty supreme

You have taught me the meaning
of the love of my Father
You are my only wife

Lift up your head
so that the world
can spit on your face

I hear them tell me
that evangelism is wrong
but infanticide is a right

Forgiveness
is available for everyone
and so is murder

If I didn't know better
if I didn't have a creator
I would not value life

Lord God in Heaven
Against you only
have we sinned

Teach us righteousness
Give me boldness
Keep my way straight


The poem has four parts (2 stanzas each). The first part briefly describes my love for Chowon, (the "beauty" mentioned in the first stanza is intended to be more than skin-deep), and the way it teaches me about God. The second part contrasts love with the *absurd* and dark ends whereto people go when they lack a moral foundation, putting our small island of beauty into the context of an ugly world. The third part is intended to convey my hopeless feeling when I hear about people throwing away the lives of their children. The fifth stanza points out the difference between God's governance and man's governance. God offers love to everyone from all walks of life, and America offers abortions (death symbolically and literally) to everyone from all walks of life. The fourth part is a prayer, intended to bring the theme back into focus; The 7th stanza is from Psalm 51:4. Our prayers for guidance are a reflection of our commitment to God, and are like sweet affirmations in the ear of our beloved savior, who is husband to the church.

"We try to live forgiven, but they won't let us forget the bodies we're still in; the bodies that we still war against."