I build a fortress for my mind,
lest foes will breach, a weakness find.
They do not know my secret place,
where wisdom builds on freedom's face,
where faith can see, but hearts are blind.
My old, dark ways, I've left behind,
I've turned away from chains that bind,
because they weave and mask God's grace.
I build a fortress...
As one should never be defined,
to be disabled and confined,
But all wise options should embrace,
to live by faith, in wisdom's face,
and with trust's presence be aligned.
I build a fortress...
R.Owen 10/01/2022
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Author Notes
A rondeau
A rondeau is a French form, 15 lines long, consisting of 3 stanzas
a quintet, a quatrain, and a sestet, with a rhyme scheme as
follows : aabba aabR aabbaR lines 9 and 15 are short, a refrain (R) consisting of a phrase from line 1, The other lines are longer, but all the same metrical length
Hebrews 10:38-39 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any draw back, my soul will have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them that draw back into perdition; but of them that believe in the saving of the soul.
Thanks for reading. R.Owen
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