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Let the storms come, I welcome them
They with their tearing winds and pouring rains.
Come lightening and whirlwinds and hail.
Standing in their midst, I am with you.
I dance to pounding rhythms all your own
As you crash about in glory, swerving, swaying
To your own heartbeat.
And I will never lose my trust in you
For within your careful chaos is a promise
Reminding me that all things balance in the end.
So come with all your gifts and best attentions.
My life is yours, take it
Make it what you will.
Nothing I could lose is worth what might be gained
Painful as the rending of a heart can be.
If I don’t need it, strip it bare
Teach me to laugh, to dance in the space left behind
Then fill it with those things worth having.
I’ll take it all, and I’ll be there by your side
Let the storms gather, let the stars collide
It may shatter my world
But I love you
I love you
And I am yours forever.
They with their tearing winds and pouring rains.
Come lightening and whirlwinds and hail.
Standing in their midst, I am with you.
I dance to pounding rhythms all your own
As you crash about in glory, swerving, swaying
To your own heartbeat.
And I will never lose my trust in you
For within your careful chaos is a promise
Reminding me that all things balance in the end.
So come with all your gifts and best attentions.
My life is yours, take it
Make it what you will.
Nothing I could lose is worth what might be gained
Painful as the rending of a heart can be.
If I don’t need it, strip it bare
Teach me to laugh, to dance in the space left behind
Then fill it with those things worth having.
I’ll take it all, and I’ll be there by your side
Let the storms gather, let the stars collide
It may shatter my world
But I love you
I love you
And I am yours forever.
I was watching Moulin Rouge the other day, and I was struck by a sense of empathy for the main characters. There's was a relationship built upon a foundation of deception, and throughout the film their trust is all or nothing. I can sympathize, especially with Loki... whether I ask it myself or not, the question from all around is one of whether or not he can truly be trusted. But the bottom line is, yes, I fully believe he can-- because even if my life is being torn to shreds I can bet he's in the middle of the chaos, cackling as everything I think I need goes up in so much smoke. This poem, to the theme "All My Trust," is my attempt to put this seemingly-contradictory thought/feeling/conviction into words.
So yes, come what may (as the title song in the film states so beautifully), I will love him until my dying day.
So yes, come what may (as the title song in the film states so beautifully), I will love him until my dying day.
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I learned just how much I trusted Loki when I was flying back from my brother's wedding last year. From CA to Houston, to Omaha - not a difficult trip, but the flight from Houston to Omaha was a nightmare. Probably about 80 passengers in all, one of those planes with one seat on one side of the aisle and two on the other. We'd been in the sky a half hour before the turbulence began, and didn't stop. It just kept getting worse. At one point it felt like two huge hands had grabbed the plane and were trying to snap it in half. The pilot told us he was steering around the bigger storms, so apparently it was the smaller ones that were killing us.
I had never been afraid on a plane before, but at that point I was petrified, white-knuckling the armrests and everything. Trying to distract myself, I said in my head (and kind of laughed a little about it) 'Well, I'd pray, but my god is Loki, and we're already in some pretty deep shit here, don't know if we want him making things even more interesting...'
It didn't help, until I realized that my god IS Loki and he has a plan. He's told me many times that he has a plan for my life, but he won't tell me what it is. And if his plan was for me to die in a plane crash, no amount of praying would stop it from happening. But if his plan involved me being alive and actually making it home, praying might help me feel better. So I prayed, and I relaxed. I put my life into his hands and said "do what you will with it, it was yours to begin with."
Plane landed forty minutes late, and instead of the shuttle bus I got to ride in a private car with a driver from the Omaha airport back to Lincoln. Like I was Donald Trump, or someone rich who doesn't totally suck.
It was the first time I'd ever been completely convinced I was going to die, and I faced it, and I lived. I hope I learned something and am better for the experience, but who knows with these things?
I had never been afraid on a plane before, but at that point I was petrified, white-knuckling the armrests and everything. Trying to distract myself, I said in my head (and kind of laughed a little about it) 'Well, I'd pray, but my god is Loki, and we're already in some pretty deep shit here, don't know if we want him making things even more interesting...'
It didn't help, until I realized that my god IS Loki and he has a plan. He's told me many times that he has a plan for my life, but he won't tell me what it is. And if his plan was for me to die in a plane crash, no amount of praying would stop it from happening. But if his plan involved me being alive and actually making it home, praying might help me feel better. So I prayed, and I relaxed. I put my life into his hands and said "do what you will with it, it was yours to begin with."
Plane landed forty minutes late, and instead of the shuttle bus I got to ride in a private car with a driver from the Omaha airport back to Lincoln. Like I was Donald Trump, or someone rich who doesn't totally suck.
It was the first time I'd ever been completely convinced I was going to die, and I faced it, and I lived. I hope I learned something and am better for the experience, but who knows with these things?