Touch the Earth, Reach the Sky
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This variation on Grace Lewis-McLaren's hymn (#301, Singing the Living Tradition) is dedicated to All Souls-PlanetEarth, especially New London, on the occasion of our Great Return, September, 2021.
Gerald 0'Liver
Touching Earth,
reaching sky.
I walk salt shores
where all Souls fly
over joy's ocean,
under sad bad lands
my faith in quests
we could understand
When to touch this Earth
to feel our sky.
Wise fools ask
our reasons why,
In glad lives
our answers glow,
in sad love
we learn to grow
How to heal our Earth
and hear this sky
We are born
while I shall die,
Life's my time for in between,
to build you a star,
to chase our dream
Touching Earth
while feeling sky
Hugging laughter
feeds my cry,
May I see
what we can give
for future's child
to sacred live
We touch this Earth
to reach light's sky
Soaring courage,
healthy high,
All Souls joining
in Earth's flight
to touch Her right
I reach through night
for love's last
last
last splendid sight.
Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2021
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