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“In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.”—Ephesians 2:22

SCRIPTURE 2:22

For this moment that I knew

Your glance could not stray from mine

Your lips folding lightly a secret

You could no longer look into my eyes.

For this moment I knew

Although you said I was no longer “the one”

I knew that your heart doth lie

when your inverted glare cradled only Truth.

For this moment I knew

that our Love was not an artifact

made of cheesy love songs and half-heart bracelets…

I could feel our lives pressing closer as we tried to say Good-bye.

The never-ending truth is that Love shall not leave us.

With Tears filling up the pockets of our cells:

I sweat your beauty

I breathe through your breath

I look through the world with your eyes

and I could never deny

that for this moment I knew

(within the downward drift

of our human demise)

we have buried the most Sacred Truth:

this Bible of our Lives.

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Additional Notes:

I did not intend this to be a religious poem, but rather, it was called 2:22 because that was the exact time (on the clock) my partner announced to me that she was leaving me. It was also the date August 22. So I called the poem Scripture 2:22, but I knew very little about the bible. I looked it up and found the following:

“In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.”—Ephesians 2:22