The salt of Your Ocean

The salt of Your Ocean                                                                          
 
Sacramental wine in a rough clay jug
passed around to the lovers of Meher, 
 
spilling and splashing as He fills each cup –
O, that the whole world might be stained!
 
Thread is twisted and pushed through a needle’s eye –
now the mending can begin.
 
A lighthouse on this Hill lures wayfarers
to its rugged shore only to shipwreck and drown.
 
I’ve tasted the salt of Your Ocean;
let me founder on these jagged stones,
          never to rise again.
 
O child of God, the path to the Summit is long and difficult,
yet you are nearer than you’ve ever been.

                                                (from A Jewel in the Dust, 2011)