Separation
Love, long ago we two were one...
What was it made You speak that prayer,
And give me this dark cross, alone?
— The cross which now it is You who bear.
They say You wished to see your joy —
Had we for that to live apart?
Had You to shape of clay a toy,
Before You could enjoy my heart?
Because, remembering not your mirth,
I cry over all my hurt and pain,
Must You now push through clay and earth,
Before we can be one again?
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