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We Who Wrestle With God

Joseph Soles

Firmly, an unbidden call

Unto the troubled mind.

Pursuing us, who, 

With weary conviction, follow.


Where Hell meets heaven,

Our souls must ponder. 

The grace be given before us

As we wander.


Availed be my quaint eyes,

As hidden truths flourish.

Why must they be secret, 

Latent to untrained sight.


For this is the truth 

Of our wandering below,

To know what to do

When the hell fires glow.


We who wrestle with God,

Must see this, 

The breaking of the vine,

The eating of the fruit.


Yet with every passing gasp,

Ground gained is only lost.

Lost to me, in the living fact 

That virtue has a cost.


We who wrestle with God,

Must lose that very fight.

Humbly learning to heed,

And not hinder.


Surrender and renounce,

Accept and relearn,

Till ethics abound,

And just penance earn.


We wrestle with God

In faith and in doubt.

Bereft of the knowledge 

We fight, till our passing of the veil


In wonder of truths, 

In ongoing pain,

Till flesh is renewed

And new life is to gain.


To us,

When our strength fails,

We who wrestle with God,

Received that which we fought for.

To know him.

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