Showing posts with label wilderness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wilderness. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Wilderness


letting go

I'll spill out the words to bring my freedom:
You don't need me,
and I don't need you.

You are the confusion I leave in Cairo.
You are the sand wiped from my eyes in the desert.
You are the stone I throw in the Kineret.
You are the paper in the Kotel that is given to God.

I am leaving you
in the ways I only know how -
I am learning to be free
in a place that isn't home.
With great pain comes great choice:
to hold on...
or to let go.

Yes,
I am releasing.
And I am reaching for the wilderness -
for the places that leave me with nothing and
everything.
Parched and tire,
I find a spring for my soul.
Oh Lord, Elo'im
my heart you have redeemed.