retreat


by Jonathan Hunter-Kilmer

a haze when I am tired

and asked only topray

no thought or work,just sogging

nothing I have to say

soaks me in rose-white vison

Your face, silent embrace

I look at my brown ceiling

You look back, I'm encased

in jubilance and patience

my essence decorate

remake and drape with garments

seamless of charity

with passion purpled love red

sea of tranquility

or willingness and ready

prostrate for You and free

to lay out, soul and body

the souls I'm sent to save

as window to Your dear face

and hands hold those You gave

but first and last You hold me

warm, cleanse, fill, strip of sins

of all that keeps me from You

in Your heart's chamber bring

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