CLARENDON PRAYER

Hands joined in prayer 

Reverent
Protective

It was You
Not I 
Who approached

Putting me on my feet
As if in invitation to dance

You took my hands
In each of yours

Slowly opening
Parting them full stretched

Fingertip to fingertip
Face to face
Body to body
Lips to lips

Adoration

With You I hang

Upon the Cross

Crucified to You
And You to me 

The blood we bleed
Is Love outpoured for all

Before the ecstasy