Let My Tears Shine Through

Out of darkness let my tears shine through                                           

Where the angel roses flower celestial bright

Where lilies of a wider field find rest

Rare blossoms there wherever my heart has dared

Pierced my rose by love in crystal drops  

From out of darkness where the light shines

For sight I see from blindness tinged with red

The truth from which every selfish heart is hid

Crushed my lily by love’s most tender hand

Wide the fragrant places where my flowers died

From pearled valleys steeped in grief              

The joyous light from which my untouched flower hides

End of night let truth’s light from out of darkness rise

From the womb of dawn love opens stooped to hear

To comfort hearts that to her cry from hurting places  

Kind hid her surprise in truth’s slant circuit laid

Cached of love in safety from the prudent and the wise  

Turned upside down the truth she hid in secret places

That none might read to steal she buried light in darkness

Foolish faith not cleverness finds decrease delight

Of love’s own prism split the fragments of the light

Weighed in measures none could fathom truth’s surprise 

That in their going under babes would comprehend

And in their knowing nothing find in loss their light