Prayer to the Lord of Our Being - April 8, 1972

Flow harmonious through this wanting frame

Breath, Force, Power, Lord inspire,

By God driven, deep this soul's desire,

Deep though too this senseless love of dusk.

Firm this faltering will, all dark descry.

I hear from some rare avenue beyond

Footfalls of unearthly astonishment

Breaking out the splendour of the sky.

Stay my hour, Lord, that I may see

Awakened children break destruction's grasp,

Bridge the lacuna dividing us from thee

And bear the body of the morning bride.

End our falsehood, banish burdened mind,

Charred hopes born of sacrificial fires

Lit in playgrounds rife with truant desires.

Through the chemistry of love thy joy transform.