This poem comes from my book: Poetics: An Exercise in Theoria.
You should buy the paper-back because it's beautiful and real books are better than digital 😁: https://a.co/d/g5WrV9R
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I published this on Youtube as, “Ani and Living Soul.”
Listen while you read: https://youtu.be/2k5Nu7MzvYs
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Welcome to The Meaning of Worship
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Ani
Ani Ladodi Vadodi Lee
You are the Light
Song of her life
You always lead her
You are her voice inside
You are her love
No one before you
All that she is
Points to you
Because she was made by you
She was made for you
And she is unfulfilled
Without full communion
Ani Ladodi Vadodi Lee
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Living Soul
I am written on;
Claimed by a power
over which I have
no control, but his
writing is good
and water to my
soul.
He who is an open
ocean, he who is a
trackless sea, the
author of the
questions written
upon, rising up in
me.
I am written on.
I am not the
master of my fate.
Fate itself knows
its master, so I
should know the
same.
I am written on.
Praise God.
Then I shall die in
peace, and no one
mourn my grave.
For written upon
my stone is that
his stone has been
rolled away.
No angel did the
work, nor any
saint to which
many pray.
But God of God,
Light from Light...
Jesus my Messiah
who loves me.
So lay me down in
the dust, and make
death my bride.
For Light from
Light has given me
his life and in him
I shall live again.