Allure Me

Shards of broken and bleeding 

Everywhere I turn 

The chaos in my heart 

The churning in my thoughts 

Constant betrayal 

Is there nowhere safe? 

Is there no one safe? 

Who to trust, where to turn 

I stumble 

Even the sacred is defiled 

The ear-splitting screams of rending 

The rending of the heart in two
My screams

Desperate 

Gasping for the quiet vastness 

The stillness of the wilderness 

Take me to the wilderness 

Lead me to the wilderness
Allure me

My hand in Yours 

The quiet bleeding of heartbreak 

Unstaunchable flow 

Cracked open and silently spilling forth 

Life flowing out 

Emptied in the wilderness 

The still of nothingness 

Dreams unraveled 

The quiet of brokenness 

Busted wide open 

Exposed in the wilderness

The quiet of abandonment 

Straining for a whisper, a breath 

Silence 

Burning for a drop, a taste 

Dust 

The withering thirst, 

The gnawing hunger of the wilderness 

Parched 

And at your mercy 

Desperate surrender
Allure me

Quiet stillness, all around 

The quiet of being 

Broken, yet set free 

Empty, with space to be filled 

New-life stirring in the wilderness 

Breath 

Breathe 

The quiet wonder of being seen 

In the most exposed places 

The perfect beauty of being known 

In the most broken-empty pieces 

Found 

In the wilderness 

Discovering 

Breathing in 

The richness of presence 

The vastness of grace 

Undeserved 

Unearned 

Undeniable 

Uncontainable 

Unbreakable 

Unquenchable

The quiet stitches of healing 

Made strong by grace and truth 

Feet planted and rising again 

On sea-legs made strong by the storm 

The way before me lit 

By the light filtering through the cracks 

Pure and resplendent 

In the beauty of the wilderness 

~~~~~ 

“Oh, that I had wings like a dove; 

then I would fly away and rest! 

I would fly far away 

to the quiet of the wilderness.” 

Psalm 55.6-7