Hymns

The italics are from a hymn I heard many years ago sung in a Church -their devoted passion and longing in their voice I shall never forget.

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His words echoed in her ears. She looked away as tears threatened to spill.
She didn't want to be there, in that hallway, exposed, infront of him. She wanted to be away. Away . Away from here.

"Save me from the future........"

She ran. Faster than her legs could carry. The people in the hallway became a blur, his voice calling out to her became distant. The gates of where she thought life would begin anew.

"O Father, I call out to you...."

She ran. Past the church where she had once found her refuge. Past the hymns she sang in the choir every morning before class.

She ran. Past the trees, the roads, the malls, the city.

" Take me back in time...."

She ran. Past the people, their lies, his deceit.
Past their bodies writhing together when she returned home.
Past the loneliness, past the humiliations.

" For I weep for your love....."

Her heart rang in her ears, her blood pressed against her skin, red, angry.
She ran to where she wanted to be. To where she belonged.

"Set me free O Father ...."

She flew into the air, past humanity, past this life. Away from what had broken her.
She flew past it all , and to where she belonged.

To her mother she extended her arms. And the ocean embraced its child.

Where He had placed his seed, in the womb of where life had been born. From where she had risen.

Deeper and deeper, to the bottom of the floor, her Mother cloaked her with Her midnight blue waves. She stormed at the agony of her child, splashing angry waves far and wide to the shores of those two legged creatures that wounded Her child.

The waters listened to her tears, as she sat and sobbed amidst them- the salt of her tears becoming theirs. Her sorrows bubbled to the surface and flew into the air.
Away from her.

This was where she belonged.

"Save me from the future
O Father I call out to you
I weep for your love
Set me free O Father ...."