"Consider the Lilies" [by Lily Goderstad]

Lord God heavenly
God haunt me with
your Holy Ghost

Father who is gone
but glorious Son
who died before
my birth live in me
again and always

come angels to
bless my room
and bed so they
might wake me in
the morning lie
beside me as I
sleep and fill me
only with air you
have breathed

petalled mother
hear my prayer
that God might
see me in your
likeness for when
I am with him I
think only of
the Lord

I shall not want gold
for the copper crown
greens with age and I
am metal in your love

praise the sacred
heart the pierced
and hanging heart
that still must beat
for everything
that lives

praise the treacherous
heart the collapsible
heart that must love
everything alive
and dead

-- Lily Goderstad