Poems by Themis

Open Your Gates

Open Your gates of eternal peace,

Compassion divine;

Let the tired soul now find release

Within Your shrine.

Aeons of dark have fallen upon it,

Burden of night;

Time has snatched a wing and torn it,

Dust dimmed its sight.

Earth's layers have crusted around its breath,

Choked up its life:

Pale ghosts of pain, hauntings of death,

Agony, strife...

O open the prison-bars, set free

The yearning flame;

Open the doors of eternity

In Your Love's Name.

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