O come, thou Wisdom from on high
        who orderest all things mightily;
    to us the path of knowledge show
        and leads us in her ways to go.

Wisdom approaches,
and I hope, with her arrival,
to walk my path with clearer vision,
vision scoured clean
by compassion and justice.

Wisdom shall (repeatedly)
place her hands on the sides of my face
to turn my head
and prevent me from looking behind or ahead.
I will be forced to meet her gaze, undistracted.
She will say
earnestly,
"Here.
Now."

Text and image © 2013 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.