Hurt Hawks Spirituality Quotes

This speaker describes salvation as having "lame feet," or feet that don't work right. This word helps remind you of the hawk's own impairment, but also suggests how time drags while this hawk waits for death to save him. The "salvation" has religious overtones (or is it undertones? Some kind of tones) that harmonize with "the redeemer" of line 11.

This might seem like sacrilege to the devout, but here the speaker is saying that death is not just a redeemer, but the redeemer. What does he mean? Redeem in the usual sense can mean a lot of things (exchange, fulfill, return, rescue), but in the Christian sense it means to save from sin. The redeemer is usually seen as Jesus Christ who is said to have died for our sins. But here we're thinking he's talking less about spiritual redemption from sins, and more about relief from suffering.

Who or what is the wild God of the world? Are there many gods, wild and otherwise? Why does the speaker use this phrase? It sounds as though he wants to put some distance between orthodox religions and his spirituality. This is the god of the church of crag and creature. And a lot hinges on that word "sometimes." There's no guarantee you're going to get mercy if you ask for it, but you've got a better shot than if you're arrogant. This god is wild, and that makes him unpredictable, too.