I do not know how much longer I have to live,
so I will thank you, postpoems, gratefully
for this fine, onsite, opportunity
to publish, through the years, my poetry.
Those who have carried an urge to judge,
from outside, like to begrudge
to us the Orthodox Faith, the Joy of Common Salvation,
which is and shall always be my soul's chiefest exultation
among the redeemed of the Orthodox Church, the great congregation;.
I ask you to overlook my human perfidy,
to understand my failures and forgive
them. In Christ, I have been made acceptable:
flesh fails, but Orthodox Christian Salvation's certainty
is His seal of redemption on my soul,
making me His---in this life and eternally.
Starward, an Orthodox Christian
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