To Be Like You

How do I love like that?

So selfless and perfect

Laying down your life

Giving your love to the hateful

Putting yourself in harm's way

So they can have a chance

Even if they won't ever take it

I want to burn like that

A thousand suns in my heart

Burning with love

To think not of my own need

To have none really

But only to be consumed

With the thought of another

One who does not have it

This dream of you in his heart

Oh to be like you

That is all I want

To pour out the cup

And know that peace

That only selflessness can bring

That death to the man

I made myself to be

That your life

May be all that I am

Let it be

Let it be if it cost me all

My teeth, my fingers...my eyes

What are they?

Next to an eternity with you?

Close to you

A friend by your side

A companion you trust

What else could I want?

That even comes close?

You are my portion

Come burn me

Let me be consumed

In the fire of knowing

Put a coal to my lips

And terrify me

If only for a better chance

To be more like you

So awesome in love

So unfathomable

In beauty and grace

Who shines like you?

King Of Glory

Stephen Pursell, 9/22/15