Pursuit

Pursuit

I look for you in the galaxies

Spinning in the endless night

Above my head.

I look for you in the soft

Whisper of raindrops

falling on the pavement

Outside my window

In the cool of the evening.

I see you in the endless fields of grass

Windblown reeds bowing

To your great majesty

Under an endless blue sky.

 I find you in the ancient texts:

Where you speak to me

In stories of men and women

Running headlong into you

In the pages before me.

You tell me of the endless river

That flows from your hand

It turns and twists

Undulating in rapids

And slowing

To meander through quiet eddies

Widening and flowing

Into the floodplain

Of my frail human soul.

I see you in the eyes

Of a wrinkled old man

Soft and loving

He bids me to come

Sit with him in the quiet evening

Around an ancient fire

And talks to me in a hushed voice

Of wonders beyond my understanding.

A nomad

I wander these lands

Deserts of pavement and buildings

Of roads and sidewalks

Made of sterile brick and steel

But I find you

In the wildflowers

Growing up through the cracks.

In the midst of the fevered pace of life

Where time is a commodity

And we are all in debt -

I find you making for me

A quiet moment in space and time.

An eternity

Breaking in between the seconds

In which I sit

And breathe in your sweet spirit.

You call out to me

When I am deaf to your words

And you pull me back in

And fill me with love

A love that is not shy

Or conditional

But wild and expectant.

It is a force inside me

That flows out of my actions

As I change the world around me:

Bringing your kingdom

To this fallen world.

You sit with me in a silence

That soaks into my soul

My spirit is born anew

It grows and takes its first steps

Under the watchful and loving eye

Of its proud father.

You are my bedrock in times of trouble

My shepherd when I am lost

The balm applied to my weary soul.

The creator of the wild color

And pensive music

That echoes from the edges

Of the expansive universe.

Grow me into the man

Who can handle all of this -

Your unbroken, unrestrained,

Relentless wild wonder.