God of Empathy

from Perpetual Felicity by Heliocentric

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Face the sky
And hear
The faint conjecture of angels [1]

Questioning
The song of grief
Of the king dismayed by suffering [2]

Chalice in hand
He throws the cup back [3]
Though like gall it burns the throat
It’s the price he’ll pay to dine with those who hunger [4]

I heard the footsteps
Stepping from the sea to shore [5]
And I saw the winepress
Fill up past
The brim and overflow

Humanity has heard
A song that became an instrument
The melody from heaven descended
And harmonized with my dirge

With one stride he leapt
Into my affliction
With one sip he quenched
The dissonance in me

From the precipice
He descends
For the destitute
He resounds

Existence
Was a cacophony
A murderous discord of mortality and wickedness
But in the noise I heard a cadence
Those footsteps
Euphonic, keeping time
Became the rhythm to the chorus of a symphony

My spite lost its footing
When his heel struck the earth
An arm outstretched to me
Was formed from the adages I had heard

From the precipice
He descends
For the destitute
He resounds

When the Word became flesh
The song of God became an instrument of empathy
He threw the cup back
And swallowed whole the chasm
The separation between my face and the one who faced my pain [6]

Maranatha

[1] 1 Peter 1:12
[2] Matthew 9:36
[3] Luke 22:42
[4] Matthew 26:29
[5] John 21:4
[6] Ephesians 2:14

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from Perpetual Felicity, released November 15, 2019

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