mass parts: sanctus

for e.m.

i want
the rest
inherent in Your breadth--

the joyous
expanse
of Your forgiving taste--

the promise
of life in You, life for You,
my Lord--
adoring, longed-for servitude.


for so long
i wandered
the unbound plain--
no seed for grain,
no water for the seed--

o Love, o Life,

how can You love me
o so much
to wish to harvest
nothingness?

O Lord,
grant me, i pray, faith in Your rest--
o grant, o grant,
grant me
Your seed.