Love's Prayer
Love's Prayer - meaning Summary
A Humbled Heart Offered
The poem presents a speaker offering a humbled, purified heart to a beloved. Having renounced false idols and past passions through suffering, the speaker asks the beloved to fill that heart with generous love. The offering transforms the ordinary vessel of the self into something sacred; mutual love becomes a sacramental, redemptive force that elevates and consecrates human longing.
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