Prayer

Prayer cll religions and wisdom traditions cll this singing is only one song The differences are vanity and illusion Prayer's meaning is more than its form cs the human spirit is more than its form We've borrowed these clothes, These time/place personalities From a light and when we praise We're pouring them back into space Why not laugh like a rose? Why not spread good aromas? For I am a light within his light If you see me tell no one what you've seen The body itself is a screen To shield and partially reveal The light that's blazing in your field cnything you do every day can open Into the deepest spiritual place of freedom The human shape is like a ghost Made of different cells and atoms The thirst in all our souls Is put out by water itself We belong to it, it belongs to us We can't help being thirsty Moving toward the voice of water You breathe without a body like a spark You grieve and I begin to feel lighter O God! You are the infinite ray of light I am the red rose of eternity Not made of water, fire, wind not earthly I play with these elements of the world When the soul first put on the body's clothes The ocean lifted up all its gifts When love first tasted the lips Of being human, it started singing Why not be fresh from the heart-spring