srael wandered in the wilderness
until they were cleansed of sin and their spiritual shame.
I have spent more than a half century (no less)
seeking the right appellation or name:
and our Lord, His Blessed Mother, and His Holy Orthodox Church have given it to me.
Who cares that the mundane, innkeeping world may receive, skeptically,
what this poem has been written to declare and proclaim?
Starward-Led, an Orthodox Christian