I pray that Starward-Led shall be on my gravestone,
standing over my mundane name:
this format has been signed to my spiritual poetry;
not the mundane name on which, truth be known,
my mocking parents and classmates poured shame,
mostly in hard words of profane condemnation.
But, Lord, You intervened and have given great blessings to me:
a love for the Orthodox Faith, the Common Salvation
which is, and shall be, my soul's chief exultation,
among all of Christ's saved and baptized redeemed---that great congregation.
Starward-Led, an Orthodox Christian