I do have a little seven year old girl
who could wrap me around her finger
without being naive
yet there is one thing
I have a while to see in her
which won't come about
until she's met the one she's to marry
and that's how I can now honestly write this ode:
to "The most precious girl I have ever seen,
Mystery"

I can't make you mine
if you know what I mean
that's just something too out of line
to ask that you so be joined to me
especially in that way

Love would have to have it's way
at least first
through it's falling
for me to attempt to say
that you can trust me
and witness and partake of
my own kind of stability

I found myself at the end of a game
that I played with passion
because it wasn't just a game
in my opinion
it was and is an offering
of something grand and sacred
which might even be called the divine romance

But they had me check mate
which doesn't happen often
I was unable to move
unable to think
unable to create
to get out of anything
except by my weaknesses means

However
they did cheat
and lie
and even attempt to steal my life and dreams

They didn't really win either

These powers and principalities
who earnestly desire
to cut off spiriuality
as it is in truth
from the land of the living

I have had victory
even through my own weaknesses

And I know
that I went quickly in some areas
like in saying you are the one
and I know I went slowly in other areas
like not yet having the thing fully ready

Just want you to know
that my flesh is at rest
no longer needing to strive
to do it's best

I don't have the words
to let you boast in my flesh
and I don't have the fleshly works
to become the strength and evidence
that the Spirit really deserves

I still just have the kind of love
that will let you choose whatever you want