Esoteric Christianity

While recovering from pneumonia, I received the phrase "cry into my eyes" and images of all the suffering I have witnessed for decades. The idea of God's tears or a cosmic grief brought me to compose these two verses. We are a well of tears if we only knew it. Each day as we witness or learn of some terrible human loss we suffer with the sufferers. This idea of "crying into my eyes" struck me as an image of this daily experience.



Esoteric Christianity

Oh God
Cry into my eyes
For your only begotten son.
Cry into my eyes
For all the sons and daughters
Whose lives were lost
In war and peace, health and sickness.
Flood my soul with knowing and love
For all who trembled and fell into the light
Of Christ's love.

Secular Esotericism

Cry into my eyes for your children
Lost to brutality or the rapaciousness of force.
Cry into my eyes for lives not lived,
Songs not sung, shared love, joyful now, imagined tomorrow.
Cry into my eyes.
Inform my heart with knowing
That I might share your pain and keep you safe.