Note to Readers: “Meditations in
Fast Times” is a devotional writing experiment for the Season of Lent. Each day
during the season, I am writing a poem as a meditation on, taking as my
inspiration and intertextual basis, T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets”, as
well as incorporating the daily office, current events, and other readings—some
the same as those Eliot used while composing his seminal work and others.
28.
I’m not eager to repeat
those thoughts and acts I now regret;
they’ve been done, and now are gone,
—let it go.
those thoughts and acts I now regret;
they’ve been done, and now are gone,
—let it go.
Last season’s fruit has all been et,
it served the role it’s nature met;
it’s all done, and now is gone,
—let it go.
it served the role it’s nature met;
it’s all done, and now is gone,
—let it go.
Let it go, let it go, let it go, let it go;
Help us rise up to new day, let it go.
Help us rise up to new day, let it go.
From wrong to wrong, and then again,
we seek to find a better way;
lead us to an answer,
—let us go.
we seek to find a better way;
lead us to an answer,
—let us go.
Come, labor on; when each soul prays
with heart, at break of day,
toward Your presence in the light
—help us go.
with heart, at break of day,
toward Your presence in the light
—help us go.
Help us go, help us go, help us go, help us go;
Help us rise up to Your light, help us go.
Help us rise up to Your light, help us go.
And when I leave my soul
out on the pure sands of some distant shore,
do not mourn my passing
—let me go.
out on the pure sands of some distant shore,
do not mourn my passing
—let me go.
Though beyond awareness,
I truly hope my purpose has been met;
Sing me to the heav’nly gate
—let me go.
Sing me to the heav’nly gate
—let me go.
Let me go, let me go, let me go, let me go,
Help me rise up to New Day, let me go.
Help me rise up to New Day, let me go.
© 2014 by Elisabeth T. Eliassen
