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Prayer B o ok
thirst for love
The cry of hunger for love
and the spark of hope for living,
(for being in love),
dissipate in the lightless darkness of loneliness,
in the lightless darkness of absence!
Thirst for love.
We beg for the glimmer of a little love
in the reflection of our gaze in the eyes of another.
We snatch a little love from the glance of the other!
We give back stingily and poorly,
and here we are, alone again!
There is no response from a beloved other,
only the echo of our voice deceitfully resonates
against the leaden walls of our solitary self.
We are locked in the watertight compartment of our
selfish loneliness.
We are alone in the darkness of non-communion.
Come, Christ, to be born in the desert of our loneliness!
Come here, now, You, my Christ,
and bring one another close to us!