HOLY WEEK REFLECTIONS

CROSSROADS

Hanging between heaven and earth

Left alone in the abyss of darkness

I bow my head in absolute humility

Nothing to hold on to in my emptiness

Save the boundless love that binds me

To my beloved who brought me here.

My troubled heart profusely bleeds

For affections I have to surrender

My weak spirit is utterly crushed

For friendship I have to break

My tongue is frozen and numbed

From lamentations I have to wail.

Don’t comfort me with words of wisdom

To find meaning in my folly

I do not need you to sing me dirges

As soothing balm for my pain

Nor a cloth to cover my nakedness

To spare me from excruciating pain.

Until I have still something to give

My offering is never complete

When everything is emptied out

And my last precious drops of blood

Fall into the sacred fire of divine love

Then my life will at last begin.