Prayer
Madonna of the Goldfinch
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Italian, 1483 - 1520)
Music pairing: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Requiem, K. 626: Lacrimosa
I look into your eyes and ask
When will it stop hurting
You join my question
Your silence speaks
I cry on your knees and plead
Please, please erase the past
Your palm on my head
You withhold comfort
Wide-eyed I dream
Of rewinding and changing
You are the flow of time
Your absence presents
My eyes wet and dead
A masked spirit drifts
You breathe into each gasp
Your reticence inspires
Breathless slumber I desire
Away to simple emptiness
You tilt my chin up
Your patience incites
On my knees I try sincerity
Beg and bargain for destiny
You’re neutral unreadable
Your silence immutable
I stare tearful at the screen
Fingers moving heart unmoving
You inhale present exhale future
Your silence speaks
To let grace come, I will
Arrive with time and hope
In your silence lives clemency
Where my silence speaks