Percipient Poem by Gert Strydom

(in answer to Thomas Hardy)
1
My Lord, I come to you in my iniquity
look at things that no mortal man did see,
faith is a great leap into the unknown
but also so is love and hope to me.
2
In righteousness near to You I have no place to be
but You do bring me to a life full of felicity
and Your lingering presence I call my own,
still Your persevering grace to me is a mystery.
3
With you I do dwell in days of tranquillity
as in Your mighty hand You do hold destiny
and Your feelings are to me sincere and known,
Your selfless love is filled with life it's not charity.
4
Like a gazer into the hearts of others I look willingly,
do note you on Your Judgment throne in great glory,
sometimes in this life into circumstance I am thrown
and right in times of wrong seems so inexplicably,
5
just as Your infinite might and the glassy sea
but as the true God, great is Your ability,
and with time our relationship have grown
in as much as I know that You do set men free,
6
that You do live a life in sincere truthful sanctity
and those innumerable beings do call You holy,
that only love in this world You have shown
and powerful You are in Your immortality.

[Reference: "The impercipient" by Thomas Hardy.]