Long Arm of the Lord

from Limerence by Paul Soupiset

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A my father was a tailor, though he longed to be a sailor
so he sewed me a captain’s coat he could not afford
all my sibling’s clothes were duller but this shone with sacred color
like the sleeves belonged on the long arm of the Lord
the long arm of the Lord

A abandoned by my brothers and mistreated by the others
i was stripped and thrown to the bottom of a wishing well
but a stronger force withdrew me from the hole in which they threw me
was i lifted up by the long arm of the Lord
the long arm of the Lord

in the night i’ve often fretted about the ways i’m stubborn-headed,
dreams of running away or the ghosts that i’m running toward
but in the darkness she consoled me, in the morning light she told me
i’d been wrestling the long arm of the Lord
the long arm of the Lord

not a phone booth for confession not a bed for my depression
so i’ll ink it up and tie it with a seventh chord
it’s not a headline for the pages not a story for the ages
i’m just a small tattoo on the long arm of the Lord
the long arm of the Lord

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from Limerence, released September 20, 2021

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Paul Soupiset San Antonio, Texas

Paul Soupiset [SOUP • a • ZAY] is a graphic designer, illustrator, painter, poet, editor, typophile, songwriter, liturgist, and armchair theologian. Paul makes his home in San Antonio where he was born in 1969.

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