POWERLESS
FOREVER ENTWINED
Bread and wine from stalk and vine,
Now made living and new life-giving.
A given freely for you and for me.
No longer bread, so coarse and dead.
But the Blood of the Lord from his heart poured.
His life flows into me, a gift given freely.
His life pulsating, body and soul saturating.
And I am made one with God’s only Son.
We are no longer apart, but united in heart:
In body and mind, forever entwined.
Loreen Marie Derry, MA 12-12-1982