you are the prayer

You can pray
or be the prayer

Sing
or be the song

Ask the searching questions
or live the unmistakable answers in every moment

You were placed here for a purpose beyond all purpose
a hope beyond all hope
you are the very breath of creation
and eternity’s unfolding

Nothing is about you
and everything is

Nothing is certain
save the unequivocal certainty of the here and now

You own nothing because you are the all
need nothing because within you lies the completeness of never-ending love
and the promise of humanity’s everlasting freedom

You can talk the talk and walk the talk
until that unmissable moment that you become the talk

You are the message, the prophecy,
the incantations and the psalms
the ritual is your beating heart
the absolution, the blood coursing through your veins
your eyes speak the benediction with every blink

No longer need you wait, candle in hand,
for the apparition made manifest

The temple lies within you!
through your holy mouth enter the willing
and return the newly born.