DESIRE







I do not desire



To have no desires



To be a still pond without a ripple



I do not desire this



For even as I love my swimming deep



Even as I treasure the silent waters



And pray for gills



That I may inhale the liquid peace



Yet there are times



When I rise to the surface



Gasping for the air of life



Wanting only to splash and play



In the sunlit waters



To lasso the skimming gull with my heart strings



To soar too high and fall too hard



To care too much



There is a price paid for wanting



I know, I know



But God is in the storm as well as the still



And I am no monk



Nor care to be



Let me then live and pay the price



With my open and vulnerable heart



Aching already with what is to come



I say



Let it come



Let it come



Let desire course through my veins



Let my heart cry out with the gull



As we glide over the ocean waves



Lifting higher and higher:



Look, God, look here



Watch me play



Share my joy as I fly



Kiss away my tears when I fall



Behold the sky water me God beauty of my life



I am alive!







Carrie Hart