Elizabeth Russell 7/22/23 Elizabeth Russell 7/22/23

Throw Away the Treasure and I’ll Be Fine

Throw away your soul

I’ll throw away mine

Together we will dig and

we will find

Elizabeth Russell 7/19/23 Elizabeth Russell 7/19/23

Virginal Love

Who is she who can know my sorrow?

What woman, blameless, has lost the love

of a good man?

Truly, if I am without fault,

and he without guilt,

what woman can know my sorrow?

Elizabeth Russell 7/13/23 Elizabeth Russell 7/13/23

The Feminine Crucifixion

I open my mouth

and I drink of thyself

I am a vessel - fill me

Fill me with thy agony

I’ll kiss away the bloody sweat

I’ll soothe the dried and bloody mat

of hair from off thy Sacred brow

and kiss the lips that suffer now

My eyes are dark, they cannot see

But what else shall there be but thee?

My mind can grasp your presence, Lord.

And that is all I shall gaze toward.

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