Meditatio

“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.