An Excerpt from "Now II", by David Berman.

and this is also a song.

O I’ve lied to you so much I can no longer trust you.

O Don’t people wear out from the inside,

Why must we suffer this expensive silence,

aren’t we meant to crest in a fury more distinguished?

Because there is my life and there is our life

(which I know to be Your life).

Dear Lord, whom I love so much,

I don’t think I can change anymore.

I have burned all my forces at the edge of the city.

I am all dressed up to go away,

and I’m asking You now

if You’d take me as I am.

For God is not a secret,

and this is also a song.

The painting is “The Burning of The Houses of Parliament” by J.M.W. Turner.