Meditatio
1 min readSep 18, 2013
“Let me see your face,”
but why do I want to see?
Is it I who asks to see your face,
or You who begs to see mine?
What are You looking for
in my eyes?
A gaze;
a longing;
a desire.
When I desire You,
I participate
in You. I can only desire
because You are desire.
I beg because I yearn,
“let me see your face,”
see in your gaze
this desire for me;
to know that I can never
long for you as much as You
desire for me.
This is the second in a series of four poems based on the practice of Lectio Divina. The previous poem is called Lectio, and the next is Oratio.