God, my love is vapour,
my heart’s dust.
I pass and fade like dew,
like day;
I tremble like the dawn.
God, my all is empty,
I have no
grace to give my neighbour or
give You.
So be my everything –
be constant when I fade,
constant in
my nothingness, my sapping
strength, my
faithless, lovelessness.
Teacher, writer, blogger, husband, father, Christian. Living in Wyndham in Melbourne's west, on the land of the Kulin Nation. Searching for words to console and feed hearts and souls.
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2 thoughts on “Theology Part 4: Psalm”
Great combination of word and music. I’m curious, was your poem inspired by Coletrain’s song, a particular Psalm or perhaps a combination?
Good question! I started with the idea for the first poem (“Theology Part 1”) then it began to evolve from there, and I realised that there was scope to follow the four parts of Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme” (each of my poems uses Coltrane’s titles). The last part is the only one though that I wrote to fit the music. And obviously I tried to match the emotional range of the Psalms.
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Great combination of word and music. I’m curious, was your poem inspired by Coletrain’s song, a particular Psalm or perhaps a combination?
Good question! I started with the idea for the first poem (“Theology Part 1”) then it began to evolve from there, and I realised that there was scope to follow the four parts of Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme” (each of my poems uses Coltrane’s titles). The last part is the only one though that I wrote to fit the music. And obviously I tried to match the emotional range of the Psalms.