Forrest Hainline Poems

Bless me
Keep me holy
Let me walk in your ways
Allow me to wear your righteous
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Help me
My troubled heart
Seeks comfort sweet Jesus
In your promise to listen and
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My I
Should be an eye
That opens to the world
Not the I solipsisticly
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They prowl
On ev'ry side
The boastful and wicked
Ev'ry one speaks falsely with his
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Barbarous beauty
Of couple-colored autumn
Assaults our senses
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Patient
Never angry
Eyes with love upon you
Sees you even when she is not
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You're as beautiful
As ever you were when we
Were young and reckless
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Dear God
Years since I've prayed -
Yet birds and light and love
Are holy - life lived fully is
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It’s years since I’ve prayed
But maybe that’s not so true
Life loved is prayer
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Your hand
Heavy on me
My bones wither away
Until I acknowledge my guilt
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