dying the first time (draw me #2)

close to me-
You draw near me,
drawing me
close to you.

teaching me,
all that you know;
of suffering pain,
and scorn.

i want to die
the most painful death-
which is the first death:
to myself.

then when i die ‘en corpus’
as St. John said,
“the second death
will harm me not.”

for that is when You
will draw me...
into Life.

8/19/08