David Novak - 84 lyrics

Dear God! a life as lived between extremes, Either the one, intractable enforcement Of chastity that's anchored to false dreams Pretending to morality's endorsement; Or else the opposite, abandonment Of all pretense to individuation In love's pursuit, to moral decrement - These both I've known, but never mediation. God, like as land that suffers dearth and flood In alternating waves, thus have I been; Either too cold, or else too hot the blood, And never gradiation in between. Now after years of heaven, years of hell, My body that was strong, is but a shell.