Sail Away Sweet Sister

This is all about God, prayer, community, music, art, poetry, theology, love and all sorts of things people run into on their life journey, especially when the second half of life is looming ahead. It is inspired by Fr Richard Rohr, by the Contemplative Outreach of Fr Thomas Keating, by C.G. Jung, by C.S. Lewis, Alan Watts, St Beuno's retreat house and all the communities I have a privilege to belong to. It is dedicated to and I hope will be used by my nearest and dearest, scattered all over the planet, and who are falling upwards with me.

Sunday, 13 March 2016

Desolatio (A new song in the voice of Mary Magdalene - music hopefully to follow in time)

Desolatio

(A Holy Saturday lament)


Where now have you gone to?
How are we still here?
Lacking our lives’ purpose
Beyond doubt and fear

Desolatio
Beauty now is silenced

Where now is your spirit?
How do things carry on?
Life has lost its meaning
All our hope has gone

Desolatio
Where now is your spirit?

Just a deadweight body
Lying in a cave
How can such lost promise
Ever really save?

Desolatio
Beauty now is silenced

What were all those sayings?
What now do they mean?
All things pass away now
Like they’ve never been

Desolatio
Where now is your spirit?


Beauty now is silenced
He will walk no more
Full hearts are now emptied
Of the hope they stored

Desolatio
Beauty now is silenced

So I must anoint him
Over his body run
Oil and tears and spices
Lost most lovely one

Desolatio
Beauty now is silenced


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  1. M.16 March 2016 at 00:43

    This is very beautiful, Richard, and every word could be mine... Thank you.

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