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Mortally Wounded
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By Charles Van Gorkom
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Mortally Wounded

“Strengthen those things that remain...”
Revelations 3:2


Pick carefully your battles,
husband your strength,
your culture could drag on
another forty years.

Mark the tree
you bleeding lie beneath
beside your love--
has stood unmoving there
two thousand rings.

Old Wind breathes into once again
its dancing summer leaves;
in His ancient foreign tongue
exhaling sings
secret syllable of breath
that second Adam raised
was it yesterday
from death of death.


by c van gorkom

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Submitted: Thursday, October 13, 2005

Last Updated: Friday, October 14, 2005

About the Poet
I am a bootmaker-poet. My wife and I live in British Columbia, Canada. See www.hikingbootshandcrafted.com I want to surprise my readers with a glimpse of the beauty of God, His mercy and grace.

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