Ode to a Thank You: Psalms
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Ode to a Thank You - Ioannis E. M. Vassos
benevolence.
INTRODUCTION
The arbitrariness of the acts of my life melted away
clashing with my soul
in the blaze of your infinitude
and my tears seemed abashed
in face of the well-grounded indictments of the eternal life
for they resembled desperate souls
of wearied dreams
And then, my friendships were reborn
along with my scant virtues
and thus they managed to teach
the breath of light to the darkness
the liquid splendor of my speculative tears, Lord
I repudiated the mediocrity of matter
I repudiated the mediocrity of man, the eternal disciple
I craved now
to offer to my spirit
only true knowledge
awarded by the beauty of the Divine.
For I, being a terrestrial friend of angels,
craved also, I, the Human present,
to meet angels
again and again, Lord.
ODE TO A THANK YOU
1. For Thou have shattered the senseless desires
of the arrogant victory of my passions, the pleasure guardians.
2. For Thou have guided the sense of my discipling ears
to associate with glorious words.
3. For Thou have preached to my heart
the courage of kindness which Thou have appelated LOVE.
4. Lord has accepted the disgrace of my form and has forgiven it.
5. The ignorant on Divinity pronounced God is
where the dominant zero loves to reside,
and the archetypal zero said to the zero,
nothing exists apart from
the desire of my human maker.
6. Shelter me Lord, in the hospitality
of Thy selflessness which is Thy truth.
Hide me in the paradises of the movement
of Thy ever all vigilant
starguarded eyes.
7. Lord, forgive those, with the totality of Thy grace
Lord, punish those, with the honesty
that always proceeds from the advice of Thy love.
8. Lord, save me from the robber, carrying
his ignorance on the misfortunes of meanness,
from the plundering instructor of impunity
who transforms truth which was grateful
to life, when it tamed wisdom into a senseless lie.
9. My soul is deliberately leading my feelings to the Lord
my body is serving with the prudence of piety
the desire of my soul,
abandoned to the submission to the Divine.
10. Oh Haven, Thou modifier and master of the divine changes in my life,
the holy desires of the virtues, make them crave, in our favour,
Thy truths.
11. Lord, I have shored within me the birth of love for Thy Truths
and now Thy Temple has become a crib to warm up the three builders
mind, body and my soul, following me loyally
and preserving