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A Baptism

Poem

Photo by Brittany Stoess

I have heard your voice rumble
from within the mountains;
when holding hands
in the all but darkness,
we stumbled upon each other.

I have felt each wave crash
into the cracks I hide
and spill the excess over crannies
into a pool awaiting.

I have felt the soft sinking
of my feet in sand,
each foot cradled in the froth.

And the cormorants disturbed
from their meditations by our coming,
flying lonesome into spray from some long time ago in Eden.

I have taken off my clothes as burdens
and flaked out of so many skins,

I’ve lost the counting –
tumbled breathless into water.

I have watched my skin appearing
covered in the ocean’s fluid,
skin so raw from being born,
I can hardly recognise myself, do you?

God you are pounding your words onto
my shields I’ve tried so hard to keep around me.

I’m not sure how to find myself again
and yet I’m trying.


Naked was the way I came,
naked is the way you find me now.

I’m done with trying;
don’t give up speaking to me through the noise or silence,
I’ve broken past the wall and cannot give up now.


February 25, 2021 · 5 Comments

Jenneth Graser

Jenneth Graser is a writer, contemplative pianist and homeschool Mom, living in the Western Cape of South Africa with her husband Karl and three daughters. She is the author of poetry and devotional books. She believes in the healing power of heart conversations, centering prayer, and the constantly transforming journey of the inner life.

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  1. Dorothy Lindsay says

    March 15, 2021 at 9:50 am

    Beautiful poem- really expressing that longing to be closer to God

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    • Jenneth Graser says

      March 15, 2021 at 11:47 am

      Thank you so much my Mom! 💗

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  2. Nerina Johnson says

    March 20, 2021 at 4:22 pm

    Yes Jenneth and Dot …it is such a real and present mystery, this deep need and response.

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    • Jenneth Graser says

      March 20, 2021 at 4:38 pm

      Ah yes Nina, so true and beautifully put, thank you.

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