Masterful!
I love how the tone and language remind me of a great Catholic writer (St. Augustine), and you've never even read him, but the spirit, the Zeitgeist, the Muse, something moves you to capture the same passion. Especially,
But you withdrew from me,...
.... You called out to me
But it was you, that you sought,
and loving your own child,
your own cry,
is not so easy.
Thanks Carol. When you told me how I reminded you of him, and then I saw why ("O Truth"), that was high praise!
I wonder, do we consider Augustine and people of his generation to be "Catholic"? Because he was around before all the streams and rivulets of Christianity as we know them today appeared, hm.
(Also, I've read St. Augustine, but only when it comes to his philosophy.)