Stripped bare to the bone, still bleeding,
Slow the process, less needing,
Beyond healing, on into salvation,
Reduced obsession, trusting beatification,
Content within longing superseding,
Removing the heartbreak of chaotic feelings,
The numbness within childish dreams overwhelming,
Reared, raised, and fettered, growing amongst a multitude of endeavors,
Knowing no better, progressing agitated on through simple grace,
Understanding immensity, the omnipresence, presented within sanctifying grace,
Confusing, alluring, enticing, refreshing, continuously quiet meditation,
Discarded masks aplenty, rejected desperate costuming, complexity of layers refusing,
No self-promoting adulation, no individual praise, no self-appointed grandeur, no self-sustaining ways, no avenues to false wisdom,
Shutdown, seriously hampered, no ripples nor continuing waves,
Worldly approval rebuked, rejected subtle invasions of perceived glory, rewarding the detached reality of renouncement,
Repentance immediate, the patience within profound imperfection, needing no longer dramatics,
Hysterical dancing in stillness, the slow movement of chaotic thoughts contently let go,
Everything continues, nothingness underlying, something greater patient and kind,
Let it be, whispered words of wisdom forgotten, let it be, let it be,
Accordance, congruity the reflecting attempt prevailing within fortitude,
Nasty disposition emerging, ornery centering upon intentional irritation, denunciation, promoting isolation,
Content in the practice of prayer, left alone within divine intimacy, satiated, further refinement still needed, no need to push away,
Unprofitable servant experiencing obligation, nothing more, nothing needing undone, doing what only needs done,
Lord keep on working, Lord keep pursuing, allow the advancement of placing attentively my hand upon my mouth,
Grant me the courage to silence myself, the will to acquiesce without battle, the abandonment of righteous refusal, the sterility of establishing religious credentials,
Knowing surrender within moments, followed by moments, reposing quaintly on into perpetual holy salutation immersed in the Cross,
Lord keep me close, the awareness of a divine image and likeness coalescing with original sin, an individual bereft,
Humbled by everything seen, by everything thought and done, experiencing the pain of wandering away,
Grace the receiving, grace the receding, grace the emptiness of restrained desperation, the lack of effort resounding,
The sound of a destitute lack of rhyming and scheming, left alone breathing, beyond the Quietest, no emptying, no effort, on into the loving arms of a Savior,
The Eucharist abiding, always waiting, standing tall while emanating, temper the refrain of every return to profound calming,
You who was, is, and still to come, announce the welcome of every tear fallen from heaven, the removal of vanity blinding the submission,
Make sense of the nonsensical within the strife of division, the divide of impermanence calling forth grand derision,
Lord make me simple, humble, lacking self-consciousness,
The crazed constant looking about, the feelings of woundedness, the reality of brokenness, accepted, released, unburdeneded, unphased by the inevitable slip, trip and fall.
Lord grace the awareness of You within every breath while breathing ‘bring me home for eternity’.