Love's Grace (A Sestina)

by Gabriel Lee

It is through the gift of your Love
I wish to gain the path to joy.
With this one gift of grace
I will stand forever in light,
My life in you complete,
My soul to soar now free.

What else could set me free
But the glory that is your Love?
If I am truly to be complete
It must be a time of joy
For us both in the bright light
Of eternal, blissful grace.

And by only Heaven's sweet grace
Can we be now set free
To reach for the pure light
Of our rightful place in Love.
Only there lives the joy
That lies waiting for us complete.

And yes, it is to be complete
That I wish for now, but will grace
Of God allow me this joy?
Or shall I never be free
To find this gift, this Love...
Shall I be denied the light?

Mine eyes are wide for the light
That is your being, complete,
Shining to me in bright Love,
Bathing me in your grace.
In this glory I will be free,
If only for a moment of joy.

For just this moment of joy
I will bask in your glorious light
Frozen, yet ready to be free
When together we are complete
In a state of true grace,
In the beauty of mutual Love.

Then and there my joy will truly be complete...
In that pure light lives God's real grace,
Setting us free to be one in Love.