Entering the Desert: A meditation poem for the First Sunday of Lent

Entering the Desert:

Go within,

to the deepest

place of

your heart,

and find there

the lenten desert places;

the spaces

of

non-beginning,

perished 

growth,

old wounds,

and

even

sins...

Once there,

in the 

searing honesty

of 

soul's sight,

feeling

its unforgiving heat,

drought driven

and

bowed by 

the

burden of

being,

simply cry,

"Mercy!"

and feel

at once,

Love's 

flooding

response,

as desert

becomes

oasis 

and blooms again

at the 

instant,

not of speech,

but of

intent's

first aspiration,

for Divinity

awaits,

always, 

invitation,

while yearning

through 

the long ages

of our losing,

to breathe life

again

into

Adamic

dust

and grant

an

Eternal Spring.

(Pic uncredited found online)