failing to speak of You
out of love only...
make the lips mute...

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not to worship You
born of love only...
make the mind sterile...
the upshot - dreadfully dire...
so, set the heart on fire...
reprove, reprove...
the unrepentant talker
the shameless liar...

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failing to rebuke
out of love only...
the uncontrite sinner -
inner mind wean the thoughts
from evolving
into a single-hearted winner...
reprove, reprove...
"lover" unpromising
cowardly mind, unheroic heart
(Oh, another sacred chance missing!)

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to waste lapse of time
scribbling of unfamiliar matters
make the pen impotent
reprove, reprove...
the naive, unthinking scribbler
for others' time can be more potent...

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stay stone-still:
when in cavernous, echoing nil,
unconfessing - loss of innocence,
profane, hardened heart,
harebrained schemes,
brazen, pathless dreams...

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if failing to speak of You
toiling for You -
born of love only... Lord...
Alas!
all is defeat formidable...
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Still, soul in hearty sorrow
over chosen, fearsome horror
bear in mind - His Mercy indomitable...
Grace all-healing... invincible...