April 9: All Around, Everywhere

All Around Everywhere

Lord God, my one abode;

The coolness within the desert heat:

Through a concrete jungle you make a road,

And within your love, our souls can meet,

Where there glows an ember

Within that meeting,

Which is joy to remember,

However fleeting.

Upon this highway, I’ve travelled long,

Watching the passing cars.

Then in the night, I unravel a song

Which I sing to the moon and the stars,

For I’m no more expecting a ride,

But  contemplating a scene,

And allowing the Silence to walk by my side,

And to tell me just what it could mean.

I stand in wonder at the base of a bridge

Away from the route of the crowds.

The light is emblazoned on society’s edge

Like the sun encircling a cloud.

And know that the spirit is alive in the steel

And in the flight of a low-flying plane;

In everything I can see and feel:

In signs and in soft-falling rain.