What Can Satisfy?

My spirit’s dry, is it really water I cry?

A yearning so deep, my ways fall shy,

So long I searched from fifth to first,

For what can quench this woman’s thirst?

Ten years shy of a century,

Where’s this child He promised me?

His words were “like sand in the seashore”

If it’s true, why haven’t You started before?

With zeal, have I searched You in the scrolls

And bounded men for what to me seems false

Who is this Man, I am trying to defy?

Is He really the One that can satisfy?

I have tried all night in search of sustenance,

But hope is lost when I give my nets a glance

Is my life all about the calm or stormy sea?

Will there be a calling reserved for me?

For through Him is a well springing up to life

And through Him is the child for…

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