BEING

Tune: Theme from “Black Orpheus”

My life is as

Vast as the sea

No boundaries no

Floor beneath me.

Yet as I look within

No man has greater sin.

I am the least of all

I daily fall.

But it’s then when I

Doubt that I can

I choose to be nothing

For man.

To die is my lot

I live as if not

With Paul

I merge with all.  

I see then as

Never before

The secrets of

heaven my store.

With wisdom twice my age

My life an open page

Though with each insight

Gain a deeper pain.

Yet I live with the

Lord on my side

And wild intuition

My guide.

I’m sent as a sign

The bread and the wine

My form

And virgin born.

Then I act seeing

Action is vain

And accomplishments

Never as gain.

To only do is less

Than forming humanness So mission I must be

To set men free.

Called to burn as an Undying flame

Each word and each

Gesture the Name.

I must through life-loss

An exalted cross

My place

Reveal his face

Then the Lord through

My life prays a prayer

And my being is

Filled being there.

I can invent anew what

All the saints once knew

By being who I am

I create man.

And it’s no longer

I who is seen

But the Lord standing

There in between.

Finished as I die

Held there between

Sky and sod

To save our God.

Yes, it's there on the limbs of the worm‑eaten tree where the All and the Nothing can BE.