Many Different Faces: Nature’s Revelation
If you could hear me now,
An essence of a sacred vow,
Symbols, sounds, a lyric -
Soothing voice of music.
Time, an ineffable constraint,
The lot for both sinner and saint.
To pursue a wisp of wind -
Falter, flail, do not rescind.
To whom do we address -
With savage mystery no less?
Questions like a storm cloud -
Booming thunder, below a crowd.
Masses gather in wake eager
For rich marrow not the meager.
Bone and flesh a simple abode.
Each on a dusty, solitary road.
A rising star, Heaven a Messiah bestowed
What prophets had in times past foretold.
Shepherd, King, our Savior does reign
To welcome His sheep without restrain.
Copyright © J. L. Smyth May 5, 2022