Dei

I dwell on dreams beyond the stars where darkness bars the sane.
And through that cloud a holiness which makes all struggles vain.
Now all that was before are shadows cast against a wall.
The mem'ries of the past, all future hopes and terrors fall
away like things that never were. What was and is, always will be,
beginning and the end, evermore and ever-after, sits upon a crystal sea…

I am undone, a sinful man cannot touch Sinai—
undone, I am undone. My sins undone before I am.
I am undone. I see I am. The I am is before my eye.
I. Eye. Aye. Here is the lion and yet, also, the lamb.