Prayer Walk (Poem into Song) words by Malcolm Guite

Song: Prayer Walk
Lyrics: Malcolm Guite
Music: AI

https://malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2025/03/16/week-2-deepening-the-life-of-prayer-10/

(vesre1)
A hidden path that starts at a dead end,
Old ways, renewed by walking with a friend,
And crossing places taken hand in hand,
The passages where nothing need be said.
(chorus)
The rich meandering of streams at play,
A setting out to find oneself astray,
And coming home at dusk a different way.
(verse2)
With bruised and scented sweetness underfoot
And unexpected birdsong overhead,
The sleeping life beneath a dark-mouthed burrow,
The rooted secrets rustling in a hedgerow,
(chorus)
The rich meandering of streams at play,
A setting out to find oneself astray,
And coming home at dusk a different way.
(verse3)
The land’s long memory in ridge and furrow,
A track once beaten and now overgrown
With complex textures, every kind of green,
Land- and cloudscape melting into one,
(chorus)
The rich meandering of streams at play,
A setting out to find oneself astray,
And coming home at dusk a different way.