The Ache of the Inner Spirit

Siren sound within my soul

Fingers crooked a-calling

An ache, a yearning

It's disconcerting

It calls me where? Dunno.

Does it call to rocky crags, 

Crashing on the shore

Or is it there, put in me, 

A wiring to a higher calling

I need a pill, drink it down with swill

To turn this to a muffled ache

Or is it in embrace of pain

That I will find my Grace?

It's burning, it's hurting, I'm trying to be learning

This is a lifelong quest

Slowly in a paradox, 

I'll sweetly find my peace

Poised in faith, toes grip the ledge

Leap away from what I've known

Will I crash into my fears

Or golden feathers unfurl

Cannot float, don't know how to let go

This deadly impulse to save myself

If I relax, will I slip away?

Or the Water's strength hold me in trust

References: Ecc 3: 10-11, Ecc 7:3, Isaiah 30:15, Luke 9:23