how deep runs this river love?

how deep runs
this river love?
____________

oh sacred
flame...
how deep
runs
this river?

where
(low
beneath)
sad fish burn
with Secret
Shame...

hoping their
Souls might
be delivered!

(from The
Devils
they fear in
Vain.)

my sinless
sweet..
you've always
known..

haven't
you?!

that there
is a Madness
working
steadily in
me..

though lately
it seems
more often
tamed!

by those
angel eyes
of blue.

(which rival
the strongest
sea.)

oh flame..
with all
gratitude I
thank thee..

for filling
my Mind
with Glee..

Lo,
How deep
runs this
River Love?!

(deeper than
My Hearts
Insanity.)

j.stephen.h.