The Holy Water Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDE FFG HI JKLM KNFOMPNQR STU VWHXSY ZMA2B2C2 RD2E2F2 G2H2I2 A SJ2K2B| No one lives outside the walls of this sacred place existence | A |
| The holy water I need it upon my eyes it is you dear you each form | B |
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| What mother would lose her infant and we are that to God | C |
| never lost from His gaze are we Every cry of the heart | D |
| is attended by light s own arms | E |
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| You cannot wander anywhere that will not aid you | F |
| Anything you can touch God brought it into | F |
| the classroom of your mind | G |
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| Differences exist but not in the city of love | H |
| Thus my vows and yours I know they are the same | I |
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| I have just peeled the skin from the potato | J |
| and you are still contemplating its worth | K |
| sweetheart indeed there are wonderful nutrients in all | L |
| for God made everything | M |
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| You joined our community at birth | K |
| With your Father being who He is what do the | N |
| world s scales know of your precious value | F |
| The priest and the prostitute they weigh the same before the Son s | O |
| immaculate being | M |
| but who can bear that truth and freedom | P |
| so a wise man adulterated the | N |
| scriptures | Q |
| every wise man knows this | R |
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| My soul s face has revealed its beauty to me | S |
| why was it shy so long didn t it know how this made me suffer | T |
| and weep | U |
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| A different game He plays with His close ones | V |
| God tells us truths you would not believe | W |
| for most everyone needs to limit His compassion concepts of | H |
| right and wrong preserve the golden seed | X |
| until one of God s friends comes along and tends your body | S |
| like a divine bride | Y |
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| The Holy sent out a surveyor to find the limits of its compassion | Z |
| and being | M |
| God knows a divine frustration whenever He acts like that | A2 |
| for the Infinite has | B2 |
| no walls | C2 |
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| Why not tease Him about this | R |
| Why not accept the freedom of what it means | D2 |
| for our Lord to see us | E2 |
| as Himself | F2 |
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| So magnificently sovereign is our Lover never say | G2 |
| 'On the other side of this river a different King rules | H2 |
| For how could that be true for nothing can oppose Infinite strength | I2 |
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| No one lives outside the walls of this sacred place existence | A |
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| The holy water my soul s brow needs is unity | S |
| Love opened my eye and I was cleansed | J2 |
| by the purity of each | K2 |
| form | B |
Rabia Al Basri
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