Myshikita's Questions
- I love you, Jesus, what more can I say?
- Can the leaf give its thanks to the tree?
- It is born as a bud at the dawn of the day.
- It opens in splendor at three,
- then shows its true glory at evening's array,
- while leaving forever its home.
- But the tree does not suffer for the loss of the leaf.
- Undaunted, the tree will live on.
- Perhaps the leaf's true worth is shown in its death, as it returns to the soil.
- Perhaps it's the end of the cycle that's best.
- Perhaps for the tree the leaf toils.
- I love you, Jesus, what more can I say?
- Can the earth give the sun back its rays?
- A pebble embraced in a halo of light,
- a dirtball that's hung on a wave.
- The earth cannot choose its own course of flight;
- Because of the sun, earth's arrested from the night.
- Has the sun gained in splendor for earth's meager stay?
- Has its brilliance increased?
- Has the earth light repaid?
- Perhaps the Sun's shinning on earth's rounded crust
- Gave birth to a must greater form.
- Perhaps as the last creature goes back to dust,
- And the heavens at last roll away,
- Perhaps, millions and trillions of stars will result
- And for each star its own ball of clay.
His Answer
- Oh, Myshikita:
- Perhaps, to the seed that is you, I'm the flower.
- Perhaps you're the bricks. I'm the house.
- If you can believe,
- I'm the breath that you breathe,
- and the blood as it flows through your veins.
- I am every good thought that your mind ever thought.
- I'm the same one who picked out your name.
- I took pleasure in you when you did not exist,
- And I loved you when you came to life.
- When you spoke to your heart and you welcomed me in,
- your spirit I claimed for my wife.
- I am first, I am last. I am all that there is.
- Any other is just a mirage.
- If you can think of yourself as being separate from me,
- You have strayed in your mind and are lost,
- And you don't understand the work that I did
- When I died for you up on that cross.
- One day you will know me Just as I know you
- And know longer will you search for me.
- On that day the saying will be fully realized.
- "Death swallowed up in victory."
Mysikita's Response
- I love you, Jesus, what more can I say?
- I will say that you are the most high.
- I will praise your name from sun up to sunset,
- and I will gladly give you this life.
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