taste and touch

I ache to taste and touch your beauty
Where faith, hope, and love remain,
So I might know and love you truly.

But my wandering heart is often unruly,
Seeking my own as I groan and complain,
Yet I long to taste and touch your beauty.

You freely forgive, release me from duty
That threatens to stifle my passion with shame,
So I might know and love you truly.

To die to myself, to turn from the fury
and take up what Jesus has gained,
so I can taste and touch your beauty.

Enlivened again, I take up with newly
Filled vigor the wonderful task: to attain
How I might know and love you truly.

I yearn to enfold you, take away worry
And love you so much you forget all the pain:
I live to taste and touch your beauty,
So I might know and love you truly.