Walk On The Ashes

God, during our life's rites rite of passage Will we have us walk on the ashes Surmount the insurmountable- Summit, unfailing, and gather courage. With tempered victory and faith, above brutality. We'll all bear witness to sores healed and soothed. By his holy divinity, without discomfort Or disadvantage we'll forego subsistence Dumb, adolescence even our somnolence! —And awaken a new, newly fortified. God has taken it upon himself, To rake those fiery coals those ashes To cut two vines for His Vanuatu, inhabitants. All he asks you to do is, fall like an arrow, Avoiding his adversary's cinder-foot-tripping rival.