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 with 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 with sky

re-birth whene’er we die.