Dark Night of the Soul

Where art thou who art everywhere

Where is the seeker, where the goal?

In this black night comes there no light

To warm the winter of my soul?

Repeat the triune questioning

The words that rumble o'er earth's grave

Where am I in this holocaust

My life, my love, thy hands that save?

From dark to dark I travel on

With ignorance to pave the way,

All turns would take me far from Thee

To shadowed fields where the evil play.

Come clear ray of God, descend

And to Thy touch this branch shall bend.