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Felicity

from Perpetual Felicity by Heliocentric

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I felt
Your grip loosen around my body [1]
Angels take their hold
Through the arms of a stranger [2]

Your breasts
Still dripped [3]
Filling to the brim the wounds
Of the Son of God [4]

Was your faith in the resurrection so strong you would choose to die? [5]
And let your body fall limp before me
A toppled temple
In the natural eye

But I watched your gaze become transfixed
You beheld hope divine
You moved the blade from the ribs to the side of your throat [6]
I saw a sword, you saw a path to take you home

And though this grief remains
It weeps with admiration

You bestowed
In me
The water in which you were once more baptized [7]
A gift was given though you were taken
Your death bought me my only birth rite

I received
The lineage
Of the royal line of heaven
The blood you shed is my inheritance
In my veins is not a drop of cowardice

You took your final steps
Standing, resolved
And marching, you crushed
The dragon’s head [8]

I watched you climb
Up Jacob's ladder [9]
Angels take their hold
Of my martyred mother [10]

I felt like a still born
While you bore the birth pangs [11]
I passed your knees but fell to taste the dust
Can you raise my head from the grave where you fell?

I fell
Into the hands of the God
Whose face fell upon us

Then I’ll rise to meet you
In the air [12]

[1] Tertullian, The Passion of the Holy Martyrs Perpetua and Felicitas, ch. 5
[2] The Apocalypse of Peter
[3] Tertullian, The Passion of the Holy Martyrs Perpetua and Felicitas, ch. 6
[4] Colossians 1:24
[5] Genesis 22
[6] Tertullian, The Passion of the Holy Martyrs Perpetua and Felicitas, ch. 6
[7] A Treatise on Re-baptism by an Anonymous Writer, ch. 15
[8] Lynn H. Cohick & Amy Brown Hughes, Christian Women in the Patristic World: Their Influence, Authority, and Legacy in the Second through Fifth Centuries, ch. 2
[9] Genesis 28
[10] Luke 16:22
[11] Matthew 24:8
[12] 1 Thessalonians 4:17

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from Perpetual Felicity, released November 15, 2019

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