I wrote something that was simply in my heart. I wanted to write something that could be analyzed and had obvious allusions. So, here is your prompt from the mind of Brandon Heim:
Write a poem, or flash fiction describing something in your heart. Search your heart for something you wouldn’t normally tell anyone, and manifest it into words, a person, a situation, event, etc. This thing in your heart could be a feeling, a bit of confusion, something you’re wrestling with, or even something that your heart has been telling you to do for a long time.
A Declaration of Death by Brandon Heim
Lord help me quit.
Quit letting the river
of the world carry me
through this existence.
Instead, letting the river
of life that submerged
me in the name of the
Trinity carry me.
Woe though, to this fleshy
heart that enjoys the
pleasures of worldly rivers
that satisfy the tongue.
I drink from it and find
I’m thirsty again.
And I drown trying to
drink the entire river.
I stumble, but only
because I know You.
And when I drink from
You, I suffer, but live.
The world doesn’t agree
with you, and like you said:
“If they hated me,
They’ll hate you too.”
My submergence was
A declaration of death.
Death to my old self,
And to the world.
For that is how the
Romans knew you were
Christian, by the washing
of the river of Life.
So, why do I always forget?
And let what this world
thinks get to me? Why
do I fear drowning?
Help me Lord, to welcome
death and suffering. Drain
the ocean of my worldly flesh,
and keep my eyes on eternity.
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