Prayer for Holy Week

Love me in my willingness to suffer
Love me in the gifts I wish to offer
          Teach me how you love and have to die
                    And I will try

Somehow to forget myself and give
Life and joy so dead things start to live.
          Let me show now an untrammelled joy,
                   Gold without alloy.

You know I have no cross but want to learn,
How to change and to the poor world turn.
          I can almost worship stars and moon
                  And the sun at noon