"Convergence Is Taking My Soul Away!! "

When I honestly consider
The mystic pain my disease is causing
My skin
Crawls with the hurt of it
My Love is all alone
And crying
My mother needs me home
Soon she'll be dying
And I am hinged in these rocks
On the bloody shore
Of pains disgrace
And I grapple with CONVERGENCE
Why so much pain and Love
Bloom together
All at once
Is there a celestial reason
For God to have taken
My strength
And just given it away
On the very day
So much Love has come my way
I feel like crawling
Into a hole
And crying for the child
My pain
Has made of me
And in the darkness
Of my despair
All I can do
Is pray
And there I learn that
Without the use of words
My soul
Would fade away.....

Tony Taylor   (Chicago)