Attend the Inner Task

I cannot seem to look

Among my spirit's leaves

Beyond sorrow's book,

M heart, my soul. still grieves.

Three years, three months, three weeks,

And soon I'll add three days,

For you my being seeks

As I wend the lonely ways.

To live when love is fled

In some vast firmament;

I cannot know the dead,

My energy is spent.

What holds me here I ask,

And hear a faint reply,

"Attend the inner task

Be calm and ask not why

For only by the light

Growing now within

Will the canopy of night

Be lifted to begin

The work of future years.

Surrender will bring peace,

An ending to all tears,

Joy by faith increase.