Ani and Living Soul
Living SoulAugust 25, 202300:04:16

Ani and Living Soul

This poem is 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

This transcript is also available on my blog: https://themeaningofworship.com/blog/ani-and-living-soul

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.

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