Baptize Us Wise
Under water he
holds me down
till I feel I’m
going to drown.
While I am
breathless in John’s hands
I’ve made a friend who understands
desires we have
to share and care
are as strong as
our need for air.
My first gulp of
air
feels breath’s a
prayer
creating with
love
peaceful as a
dove
birth of an adult
child
who’ll find how
in the wild
earth water sun
and sky
re-birth whene're
we die.