I'll Wait

“Make ready for the face that speaks like lightning, uttering the new name of your exaltation deep in the vitals of your soul. Make ready for the Christ, Whose smile like lightning sets free the song of everlasting glory that now sleeps in your paper flesh, like dynamite.” Thomas Merton, A Book of Hours

I’ll

wait

for that

time when Your

silence fills the world

when even birds cannot conceive

cannot dream of dawn; then my sallow skin will burst to

flame, freedom’s song will utter my name, and I will rise to glory through death’s darkest vein!

(16 September 2013)