Stillness

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I have known this wind and water,
seen their workings all my days,
from my mother and my father
learned their order and their ways,
yet you turn the wind from violence.
Now you turn the seas to stone.
You are turning storm to silence,
overturning all I’ve known.
Can I trust you in the stillness
as the tempest falls apart,
though a greater fear now fills me
than the longing of my heart?
I have never seen this ocean
and its whispers never heard
where you walk with careless motion
as the waves obey your word:
If I take the path you’re forging,
if I walk on this new sea
and I fall where fear is surging,
will you turn your back on me?
Lord, I long for you to call me
but I sink beneath my doubt.
All I’ve known is failed and falling:
Let me see your hand reach out.