"Sleep and Slumber": Day 32, Lent 2012

"Self–denial seems to mean not going out of the world, but walking warily and uprightly in it." – John Keble

Find my eyes at rest, not shut,

my Lord,

and though my lids be shot through with slumber,

lift them high 

(rising from that 

deep-sleep-sent-to-bed-without-a-peep  

tomb)

And find for them a perch–––a stone, even,

soon to be rolled away, 

tossed and turned

away,

but for now I'll sit, where still and quiet

my soul might rest its gaze

                     as if to bed yet not to sleep,

                                                                  awake.

Psalm 131; 132