Note: Some poetry from 2021-2022 are unlisted in the Index of Titles.

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

The narrow path

The narrow path

Your wine glass shattered within me,
the jagged edges burning,

the wine drained away.
How to piece together a broken life?

What could make it whole - after You walked through it?
Lead me from these ruins, o Lord.

I remember climbing that yonder Hill -
that's where the blood trail starts.

Lost to the world, lost in the heart-regions
on this narrow, crooked path leading home.

O child of God, your Beloved chose this path for you.
Ordinary life is all of heaven your timid heart can hold.

                                   (from The Garden of Surrender, 2004)

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