Speak to me with an ordinary voice
Ashes to ashes
dust to dust
You are dust and
to dust you shall return

Ashes to ashes
dust to dust
My life is ashes.
My world is dust.

I seek a gracious one
the self-giving one
the forerunner
crying my wilderness.

I seek the washing flood
the clear liquid pool
a new water
cleansing my nakedness

I seek a longed for one
a most empty one
the beloved
ripping my firmament

I seek a parching place
the bedeviled rocks
a hope killer
crushing my heart and soul

I seek a dying one
the soul rending one
death distiller
absorbing all my grief

I seek a fertile place
a nurturing soil
loving to life
my shriveled hopefulness

I seek a rising one
the quickening one
seminal source
reviving my spirit

I seek no ending point
no death-filled meaning
for what will come
to reach full union.

Ashes to ashes
dust to dust
You are dust and
from dust you shalt return

Ashes to ashes
dust to dust
From ashes spring life.
from dust, a world.