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To My Neighbor

I lift you higher,
lift you out
of your body cells
stuffed with anxiety
of your past -
an evil load that smells.

I'll fill each cell
with love and joy
that makes the
angels dance.
You'll glide through earthly
filth and stench -
a spiritual trance.

From your youth filled eyes,
your hands
and feet,
a holy peace shall flow,
so you and I
be filled with grace -
let us be still
and know.

William Hermanns
[P527]

Seelentränen

Seelentränen sind Gedichte,
rot mit Herzblut aufgeschrieben,
tiefem Menschenleid zum Ruhm,

Lies sie still in reinem Lichte,
unbeschattet,
frei von Trieben:
Du betrittst ein Heiligtum.

Wilhelm Hermanns
[G001]

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Poem of William Hermanns

P108

                  Trust

I lost you for awhile,
became a human wreck
with pains and burdened back.

How wretched I could be
to throw you overboard
and serve another lord.

Anxiety his name,
my hope turned slowly grey;
I chose my own decay.

Oh grim self-adulation:
I changed my childlike trust
into despair and dust.

Anxiety pricks flesh,
at night sits on my chest
and strangles breath and rest.

This night when all was black —
no light, I sank too deep —
I saw you in my sleep.

Your eyes gleamed from a painting,
your lips moved but no sound.
I threw myself to the ground.

Too long you drank my cup,
and now your cup I drink.
Lord, lift me up, I sink.

Too long I wooed my will
and broke beneath its load.
This night I felt your love;
come, make me your abode.

                  William Hermanns [P108]

Note: P108. Trust; 1970's; upon looking at a copy of painting of the Sacred Heart of Jesus that hung in the poet's bedroom.