<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460055" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>I eager for You</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">today, O My Beloved, <br>I eager for you…<br>there was no such word<br>until today; today, there is..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">to say, I’m eager for you<br>would be to say, <br>less than, I am…<br>when it’s I am, and<br>which you are, O My Beloved, <br>that eagers…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">nor do I recognise eagerness..<br>how can I, if it’s not me? <br>no, today, it's an active word...<br>what else might I say? <br>to say I long, makes it sound<br>that I may never find you…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">to say, I languish, makes me sound<br>so weak and hopeless…<br>to say, I yearn, makes it sound<br>as if I never knew You…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">even the Hebrew word the psalmist used –<br>the deer that yearns for the waterbrook, <br>the hart that pants for cooling streams –<br>even that word’s uncertain; some say<br>it’s the way that a deer, feet slightly splayed<br>upon the sloping bank, stretches out its graceful neck<br>to the clear, pure, healing water…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">some say, it’s that slight sound the deer makes, <br>as it gently laps that lovely water…<br>the sound that quenching makes...<br>today I am that deer, tasting what’s just out of reach…; <br>that feeling beyond all words possesses me –</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the feeling that You who ever are inside me, Lord, <br>wish to proclaim You outside me –<br>today, O My Beloved, <br>I eager for to be myself; for You…</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460055" data-title="I eager for You de Michael Shepherd" data-description="today, O My Beloved, I eager for you… there was no such word until today; today, there is.. to say, I’m eager for you would be to say, less than, I am… when it’s I am, and which you are, O My Beloved, that eagers… nor do I recognise..."></div> </div> </div>

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