Prayer and Consecration

I pray the Presence to pierce this obdurate mind

And in the well of the grief-torn heart instil

The cleansing Force,, centre of peace and calm,

Pure and strong inviolable Will

To suffer change unmoved, unscathed by fire

That burns away the remnants of the past,

Whose heat is not impossible to bear,

And I in total offering a last

Irrevocable holocaust of self,

A consecration of all I represent

Unknown to me within this outer shell,

A vessel cleansed, made ready for God's descent.