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Verse II, FOR I'M DYING BECAUSE I DO NOT DIE, Verses of the soul painfully yearning to see God: I live without living in myself, and my popes are so high that I'm dying because I do not die. I nolonger live in myself, and without God I cannot live; since I'm left without Him and without myself, what can my present life be? It will become for me a thousand deathes, for I'm longing for my own life, dying because I do not die. This life that Ilive is the absence of living; and so it is to die constantly until I live with You; listen, God, to what I'm saying: I don't want this life, for I'm dying because I do not die. Absent from You, what kind of life can I lead but to suffer death, the cruelest death I've ever known? I'm sorry for myself, for I so perservere that I'm dying because I do not die. Even the fish taken out of water does not lack relief, for in the death which he suffers, death finally comes to his rescue. What death can there be to equal my pitiful life, for the more I live, the more I die? When I expect relief by contemplating You in the Sacrament, I am made to suffer more by not being able to possess You; it all contributes to further pain because I cannot contemplate You as I wish, and I'm dying because I don not die. And if I take joy, Lord, in the hope of contemplating You, when I realize that I can lose you, my grief is doubled; living in such fear, and hoping as I do, Im dying because I do not die. Take me out of this death, God, and give me life; don't keep me tied down by such strong bonds; consider that I'm painfully yearning to see You, and my suffering is so complete that I'm dying because I do not die. I shall grieve for my death, and I shall regret my life so long as it is prolonged because of my sins. Oh my God, when will it be that I can really say: I'm living now because I do not die?

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