Forrest Hainline Poems

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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Enemies assail
Me from ev’ry direction
You, Lord, are my shield
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Age brings
Infirmities
The nagging reminders
That I’m not done answering death
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Sense joy in all things
Empty your heart of anger
When teaching the young
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I was on the wrong road
And in the wrong road the Angel took her stand
To stand in my way and right my journey
I would not see her though she stood before me
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I looked to earth and saw a formless waste
I looked to heaven and saw no light
I looked to mountains and saw them crumbling
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Rejoice
With your whole heart
The Lord maintains your cause
Hears your cries, and remembers the
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I looked
At formless earth
And the empty heavens
The mountains were quaking with God’s
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