New Work in Progress - Winter in My Soul

WINTER IN MY SOUL

First self-portrait since 1990.

Inspired by a song by Maurice Sparrow

Master, can you show me?

I have lost the way.

I have taken a blind alley and it’s hard to pray.

I have closed the eyes that led me

Through the darkest day,

And I’ve fallen

Where the thorns begin to grow.

I have felt the summer shower when the sun is bright.

I have known the warmest hour in the stormy night,

But I’ve seen it all turn sour

With the winter blight.

And the bitter frost brings winter to my soul.

I have known the love that touched me when I first was born.

I have learned to reach my hand out when I fear the storm.

But this time

It’s not so easy, and I’m so afraid,

For the winter’s creeping nearer to my soul.

Won’t you touch me like you touched me when my day was born

and the newness of our twoness gave my heart a song?

I have been in desert places

For oh too long.

Breathe a wind to warm the winter in my soul.