O let your stillness speak today

(To be sung to an LM meter tune)

O Let your stillness speak today
With silent mouth speak to us:
For whoso hears your silence is,
awaiting for renewal with you

You suffered much until the end
You loved us all to the extreme
That beauty and splendor hath adorned
Creation's height and depth and width

You mingled our humanity
you clothed it with divinity
You lifted it upon the cross
to share with us of your glory

It is through this mystr’y of truth
that Leviathan is trodden down
In dying you destroyed our death
In hope we await to rise with you

Allow us Lord to die with you
To break our hearts by loving you
And in this way may we partake
Of blessed dance of Trinity

-Carlos J. Medina, OSA
(I took much of the imagery from the poems of St. Ephrem and St. Gregory of Nazianzen)