Happy Spring!

 

“A Seed Psalm”

 

Awaken, you buried seeds

Asleep in your earthen tombs!

Rise up with joy to break forth

The hard coffins of your shells!

 

Your Eastertime has come;

The song of the dove

Is heard over the softening land.

 

Awaken, seeds of holiness

Buried deep within me.

Rise up to fulfill your destiny

Whose time has come.

 

For sanctity is scribbled

Bold within my blood and brain.

Onward and beyond

Have I been called

Even before I felt the sun

Or knew the earth around me. 

 

May spring enchant the saint,

Shy and hesitant within me,

And set the rhythm for my sluggish feet

In a dance of holy yearning.”

~Ed Hays, “Prayers for a Planetary Pilgrim”