Full of the fear of not knowing
Full of the fear of not knowing And not being known Not even to myself I run from everyone And constantly arrive in a silence Before you Hunting the elusive peace The final resting in you Frightened of shadows Frightened of my fear Which love should have cast out Frightened of the brightness of this day Because of its contrast With any succeeding darkness And frightened of you I come to you Many feelings for you and the world around me War with one another in me And yet behind allthose feelings is a certainty That my life is rooted in you With all fear and joy Restless and amazement Stress...
Read MoreI long for your presence
I long for your presence I want to talk to you Not only in prayers Not only in thoughts I want to see you But not only in the faces of others I want to talk to you directly I want to see your lips move To see your eyes look into mine To see you use your hands To see you smile To see you cry But you don’t come And my longing remains Now I will convert that longing into energy And that energy into making you visible In me Poem by Ulrich Schaffer
Read MoreYour gentle voice calls me into my silence
Your gentle voice calls into my silence Searches me out in love Overwhelms me with many forms of light And I answer your call With a hesitant voice: Here I am I am a son of God A child Through the death of your son I am blameless and pure In the grace that you hold in readiness For me My head swims At what you have done for me I drink in the light That spreads with your presence And I am whole Poem by Ulrich Schaffer
Read MoreThe Water Rushing Against the Rock
The water rushing against the rock Smashing into particles of light Reflecting the infinite blue above Teaches me of life The gull in flight like a silent storm Facing the fierce needles of the winter wind Pierced by the cold penetrating its feathers Banks into my life And teaches me resistance Pressed to the ground into death Surrounded by questions like scavengers Broken-boned and blinded by empty snow I notice your life touching mine Teaching me of your suffering Form which I am reborn once again Poem by Ulrich Schaffer Photo from Hamed...
Read MoreMy experience with you
My experiences with you Loom large in my life Lord I fall back on them I feel secure in them I can recall and interpret them I learn their meaning And yet again and again They leave me empty Because they are part of yesterday Which is gone I see the newness of these leaves before me Never before have they been guests on this tree They are the product of sunlight and earth And they put my old life to shame Because I am not reborn daily In the nearness to you I know: That which is gone is gone You are here now And you want to be my sun and moon Lord of my life In the brightness of your...
Read MoreThe Silence Renews Me
The Silence Renews Me As I sink into myself And I lose the weight of worlds Liberated of my feverish mind And released from the drive To live by calendars and clocks In this time and space My life becomes visible and audible again And the everyday becomes significant: The warmth of the sun moves through me in waves I am again target to the raindrop I am here in the present In this silence I can turn into a bird And shoot into the blue I become light And sense the weightlessness of another world So close to the origin So close to you . Poem by Ulrich Schaffer Photo from Random...
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