Anthem

You shared flesh with me

danced with me in the ancient circle

of birth life and death

but You live again

while autumn leaves fall

in the summer of my life

it is the millstone

around the neck of us all

but You wore it like a crown

weaving to the shrill

that makes cowards of us all

but to You it was harmony

You knew shame like no other

You tasted death like no other

You shed tears like no other man

this incarnation repelled me

but threw me to my knees

could i be anything

but a moth to the flame

Your cross compels me

You are the breath that gives me life

You are mystery

You are beauty

You are the risen Christ.