My Heart Is Gay
My heart is gay whilst all about is death
Because I feel the Lord is always near.
My heart is happy filled with heaven’s breath,
Though everywhere around me, men lose faith,
And walk the ways of death, perpetual fear.
My heart is gay whilst all about is death.
My peers rush to and fro. Hidden beneath
Their cloaks beat hearts that barely beat sincere.
My heart is happy filled with heaven’s breath,
The air of life eternal, wholly truth
Pronounced by daybreak’s early chanticleer.
My heart is gay whilst all about is death.
Perpetual beat, I am alive! Time’s teeth
May yet, and must, this living body tear.
My heart is happy filled with heaven’s breath.
Lord God of my horizons, happy birth
Thou givest—let my soul so persevere.
My heart is gay whilst all about is death,
My heart is happy filled with heaven’s breath.