Hound of Heaven Hymns

Poetry list

the terror

it’s new since we
were parted and
comes so often in
a flash a chill so
great and fearsome
gripping flesh and
mind penetrating
into soul so fierce
the aloneness the
abandonment so
bleak and desperate
and then it’s gone
and it teaches so much
falling apart is
life – and death –
the image of the
false god and the
no god deludes and
it is the aloneness
that brings me to
you to us to the
mystery where I can
only float and sink
die and rise the
grip of terror the vice
of certitude explode
in the detonation where
nothingness becomes
all the combustion of
love