You shared flesh with me
danced with me in the ancient circle

of birth life and death
but You live again


while autumn leaves fall
in the summer of my life
it is the millstone

around the neck of us all
but You wore it like a crown
weaving to the shrill

that makes cowards of us all
but to You it was harmony


You knew shame like no other
You tasted death like no other
You shed tears like no other man


this incarnation repelled me
but threw me to my knees

could i be anything
but a moth to the flame
Your cross compels me

You are the breath that gives me life
You are mystery
You are beauty

You are the risen Christ.