Hook In Mouth ~

In darkness swimming

Seeking only Your will

No care for winning

Or gettin' my own fill

Something bright!

Defying night!

Your word touches my lips

I swallow the book whole

For a moment
Darkness slips

Like reflection off coal

Flying up--forced to alight

Striving down--yanked aright

Stomach same as knots

Soreness in the soul

Dark and divine thoughts

Leaving overfull

Heading north--pulled south

Your hook in my mouth