“Walk with me”
The words to your friends in Eden’s cool evening
tumble through history.
Enoch, walk with meNoah, walk with me whilst I explain carpentry and rainWalk with me, Israel, through parted seas and barren desert.I'll walk you to the promised land though you wriggle to escape my hand.
Even as they feasted on milk and honey,
they strayed.
So far that none could hear your voice.
So you yourself came
Looked us in the eye and bid, ‘walk with me’
And we followed and walked from Galilee to Jerusalem and back
many times,
walking and talking.
You were our friend, walking with us.
Your crown was hid, and when your plan was revealed
and disguise cast away
You merely asked us ‘pray with me’
yet we slept,
and on waking, we fled.
Death could not hold you.
Alive and risen you took again to the road
with ordinary people.
‘May I walk with you?’
And you walked and talked
explaining the plan,
only leaving when light had dawned upon our dull brains
that this was you and you were alive.
Despair dethroned by Hope.
Here we stand
Urged by ancestors to walk with you
A cloud of witnesses watching our steps
until we will come
to the city where no one shall say to another ‘know the Lord’ for all shall know You.
All shall walk with You
in a place beyond time itself.
But for now, as gravity pins me to earth
I hear the call of love
the call to friendship
You almost sound lonely, and certainly yearning:
“Walk with me”.
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