46 of 70 the complete apocalypse stanzas for marinela and the one hundred stanzas
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STANZAS FOR MARINELA
We perhaps will play
Until our last breath, but we
Did something for Him.
We learned how to give:
How to Create: and how to
Find: The Gift of Love.
God is good: and He
Is the giver of good gifts:
You are one for me.
MB
THE ONE HUNDRED STANZAS
Mysterious is
The coming and going of
Life in all its parts.
The most beautiful
Part of my life was lived in
My embrace by grace.
The gifts of God are
All of them good as you are
For me: but we sought
Something more than love
Between a man and wife and
Found our end in Him.
He suffered in His
Waiting for us: We played like
Children and fought like
Wild ones against our
Calling: the vocation He
Intended: Our peace.
Mysterious was
The way God moved us in love:
Attraction did not
Become distraction:
The fate of many couples:
Ever we will love.
But we love because
Not despite virtue: because
Our affair joined His.
Stay: linger with me:
Tarry yet awhile: He calls
Us to meditate.
We are still hungry
For one another and for
Him: the source: the first
Principle of love:
We became a little less
Full and more empty
As time went on in
What we found to be the best
Part of our marriage.
We: no longer young:
And having loved in our great
Decade look back on
A gradual light
Ascending among us and
Within us: the Call.
We have not fully
Answered: yet we do not search
For more than meaning:
Our response is:
Yes Lord: simply that: Yes Lord:
Whatever You say.
Cease all your searching:
You have the secret in Him:
He is here with us.
I have seen you in
Desire: and with the eyes of
Peace: it is better.
Yet: I still love you:
Do not wish for freedom but
To serve: to arrive.
I have seen the fire
Rise and watched the incense burn
Trailing smoke like gifts
Sent up to Him in
Prayer: our love became more:
Holy: as He said:
Be you therefore like
Me for I am holy: if
We would love we must.
It is Him we will
Meet when we meet on our way:
To vigil we come.
Our love alone could
Not be sure if not for Him:
In Spirit we love.
Grace and truth must be:
Despite our bodies failing:
He is now our health.
Oh: my Bride: my Love:
Do not forget the path I
Took to reach this place.
I am getting nearer:
To you: to Him: completion
Of the race draws close.
There is no telling
What truth will take me away:
Where I go from here.
But I trust in Him:
It must be beautiful: for
I have the Promise.
We await alone:
Strip: strip: strip: meanings away:
God is so much more.
Our love past telling:
With each other: but for Him:
Not for us alone.
Our love foretelling:
If we could: how we reached this
Place of no return.
Please Lord protect the
Integrity of the work You
Are working in us.
We: when we work: must:
Work not for ourselves alone:
But for Your glory.
You: I believe: Glory
In our poverty and find
Emptiness better
Than we imagine:
Where we would desire more You
Want us to have less.
But yet: no decrease:
Not of love: but of desire:
Which is all too rich.
You chose poverty
In order to give us so
Much more than mammon.
Let our striving cease
And rest: we have enough: let
Him decide our path.
All glory honor
Praise power: to Him: Our King:
Our religion is.
It is not the failed
Romance: it is fulfillment:
In Him we arrive
With each other: But
More: we have become His: His
Instruments of love.
Love is so much more:
More than the mind or heart can
Grasp: let Him hold us.
Cantos on chaos:
The love stories of our time:
We had something more.
To be poor in things:
Strip: strip: strip: make us naked:
Lovers in love.
No love outside Him:
Without Him we never were:
He brought us: as His.
I would not love you:
No: I could not: if you were
Not the one He sent.
The gift from God came:
I saw you and recognized
You: and His kindness.
Not without judgment:
But more in mercy for my
Weakness and my faults.
But God forgave me
And sent me you so we found
Life and lived: for Love.
Not just to survive
But to create something more
Than we could alone.
You are His not mine;
And I am more His than I
Know: Lord take me in.
Oh we little ones:
We played and took ourselves so
Seriously then.
In abandonment:
In surrender: in peaceful
Prayer we became.
We took on our lives
And lived for holiness and
For a kind of life
We had been too young
To realize at the start:
We looked to Heaven
And we found the saints:
How happy and serene they
Are after their lives.
They did not lose God
To gain their lives but lost their
Lives to gain the death
Of all desiring
But the desire which is Him:
He is theirs: deathless.
We have yet to die:
But we can begin for Him:
A small matter to
Choose life: but His life
Means our deaths and to give our
Lives in sacrifice.
You are like my God
In that you my Love live for
Others not yourself.
Lord protect my soul
And lead me on: a little
Further now: lead on.
The end of my life:
It is not death but life: my
End is my rebirth.
But to arrive there
I must die to self and be
Born anew today:
Not waiting for time
To pass: not just passing time.
All time is passing.
The past is all but
Gone and the mystic sages
They are telling us:
Get wisdom: seek her:
Find the woman of your dreams:
Her truth: fulfillment.
And You: You love her:
You show and tell the secret:
The moral beauty.
Beautiful lady!
She is: she is in Him: love
Of our God for us.
She led us to Him:
Each by our own path: with her:
But only for Him.
God is good. Never
Alone. He gave His life but
Death did not hold Him.
We will see Him then
And then we will arrive: yet
Life is eternal.
Is always in truth
And knowing truth eternal:
We have His life now.
The Teresas tell
Us so: told us in words and
Deeds: in a shower
Of roses: became
You those roses: in loving
We bloomed late: arrived.
We hope for so much:
And great the promises: great
The life together.
No: we did not let
The scattering of our time
Occur: we gathered.
Gathered together
In our little church: became
A church: but little.
Small sanctuary
Of a life: place of repose:
In the peace of Christ.
There was storm and stress:
Enough: but passing the rocks:
In harbor: we arrive.
I fought myself
Not you: you helped me win: win
The battle for love.
For love of Him is:
Will always be truth: our truth
In the church we made.
We made a little
World within the world: for Him
And for her wisdom.
Shower of roses
You received in our little
World: I prayed for you.
And you lived for me.
Grateful I watch you in your
Task of life: you hope:
You wait patiently:
For Him: for her: for what will
Come: hoped for heaven.
We were strangers when
We kissed: not now: I lost my
Strangeness out of love.
Love me still: little
One: pour on me your shouting:
Oh that I could hear!
There was no other:
No other one: no other
Way: but we for Him.
Follow then: follow:
And listen to me: follow
Him: where I may be.
Summer is over:
Day declines: we are older:
Yet we are still near:
Nearer to the one:
And dearer to each other:
Abiding awaiting
No greater love than
What we knew in our decade:
We lived and moved and
Had our being in
A marriage made by Him: yes
We were made by Him.
Believe all things: yes
Believe in love: believe in
Our arrival in Him.
Not for us alone
Did we become a city
On a hill: still love
Decides what we will
Be: we will let go later:
Loves say we remain:
And in remaining
Days of our love: making one
Perfect place for Him.