You sow my stony ground with winnowed grain. You answer my wordless prayers without a word. When the riptides of loneliness drag me back into the storm, you guide my shrinking form from sea to shore. And still I wrap my ripped skin in thin strips of gauze. Grant me the courage to strip off my masks and inhabit your silence in nakedness and need, embracing completely whatever brings you near, whatever dissolves the walls of fear and waters the grass in the prison yard. Melt the iron rod, and spread my body on the bread of Life. Without you, I go hungry in America, land of plenty, land of empty promises of liberty. Liberate me from the way I cling to everything I’d kill to keep. Bring back my soul to your tree like a leaf in spring. Gather the seeds my grasping hands have scattered, and plant in the depths of my pain the pearl of your measureless grain.
Brian Leibold 
So much in here to savor. Answering wordless prayers without a word, and all those p’s and a’s in that last sentence.
Kept reading and re-reading this powerful sentence: “Liberate me from the way I cling to everything I’d kill to keep.”
Loved it all but this sentence in particular drew me in:
embracing completely whatever brings you near, whatever dissolves the walls of fear and waters the grass in the prison yard.
So Beautiful, Brian!
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Very powerful, very insightful!!!
“Liberate me from the way I cling to everything I’d kill to keep.” New affirmation!