Perpetual

from Perpetual Felicity by Heliocentric

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The final day has shown her rays
The day of victory
This joy in me climaxes [1]
But it smells like blood to me

Am I a masochist
Shrouded in the guise of a saint?
Today I will be fathered by God
While I leave my child as a dismal orphan [2]

I hear beyond prison gates
Pleading for me to keep
My life, but those voices
Lose all familiarity [3]
Sainthood now beckons me
But I'm still left questioning
If I'll be venerated
By all while hated by my son [4]

Chains are the diadems of the saints [5]

The dead bury themselves [6]
But mine still live
My hands touched the plow [7]
But I still flinch

I was
Given
Orders from above
But will
My compliance
Breed antipathy against

The mother?
The martyr?
The God?

I bare
The name of God
My son
Bears
The name "bastard"

[1] Tertullian, The Passion of the Holy Martyrs Perpetua and Felicitas, ch. 6
[2] Ibid., ch. 2
[3] Ibid., ch. 1
[4] 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
[5] Polycarp of Smyrna, The Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians, ch. 1
[6] Matthew 8:22
[7] Luke 9:62

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from Perpetual Felicity, released November 15, 2019

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