Perfume

What song does this perfume sing:
of grace and beauty
yet mingled with the lament of love?

What song does this perfume sing:
of faith in a God among the people
who then turn God’s traitors?

What song does this perfume sing:
of hope, alive in the world
too soon crushed and emptied?

For perfume sings a love song
of healing wounds and anointing grace
of knowing that which is sacred
of seeking out that which is found to be worthwhile
It is filled with the longing for what the future brings
and of giving life for that future
committing all to the possibility
just the possibility
that good may come of it

Perfume sings lullabies of hope
by grabbing hold of what is now
and wrestling the beauty out of it
taking tired feet
and soothing them that they may walk once more
taking furrowed brows
and easing the pain of tomorrow
taking the dust of the path
and finding an alleluia within it

What song does this perfume sing?

yet this jar is pierced
the glass shatters with the truth
the song: a lament of beauty
of longing in the brokenness
of seeing the shadows fall against the light
this song is glass, crushed
scattered fragments of what hope once was.

This anointing is of body

The song is silenced
now just the fragrance lasts
but for a short time only
for a short time only
scattered by the darkness
of what people refuse to believe