God’s hidden face

When love bursts through

This steely brace

All the joy I ever longed for or knew

But lost the way to

Births within me

Out of the flames of anger past

As finally I see

Beyond the veil and mask

Obscuring truths

Hidden deep within the pain

And then it is that I know

You are here

But will never come again

As I realise too

All the shame that drove

Us to this place

Where we finally had to face

The truth of our vulnerability 

Knowing nothing we ever indured

Could be in vain

For it is in kneeling that we rise

It is through defeat that we birth

Our soul’s victory

And it is through suffering

Fully embraced

That we see revealed

The mystery and exquisite ecstasy

Of God’s hidden face