Dawn Prayer
Oh! precious dawn ~
paint me from your endless palette
of transient tangerines and burnished gold\'s,
delicate azure blues and firey reds. Colors
that blaze and sing across the morning
skies in provocative and ever swirling
brush strokes.
Oh wondrous dawn, I breathe you in, I fill
my eyes with your colors and feel your
warmth upon my nakedness.
I watch you, streaking across the skies
and I am a child again, chasing paper
kites across clover meadows and nibbling
candy floss as I dance through the
fairground of my childhood.
Bathe me in your glory and whisper your
sacred morning mantra into my being, lift me
from the grey remnants of the dark lonely
night into your loving motherly arms.
Suckle me at your breast, infuse me with your
colors of love and beauty, that I may become
a reflection of the hope your colors bring.
Oh Precious dawn -
Herald my existence as you herald each new
day, and let me be known to my Lord God -
- by the colors you paint me.