Out of the Ivory Palaces

  ‘Out of the Ivory Palaces’

Will I smell You, will I see You?

Will I sense You, will I hear You?

Will I touch You, will I know You?

And in the room, are You near me, are you in the gloom?

Are You still, or moving round me?

Are You breathing, are You smiling?

Is there joy, are You weeping?

Is Your heart beating, is it heavy,

Does it long for me?

Do You remember Your call to ‘come’?

Do You know I am here, can You feel my fear,

That I have missed You somewhere

Coming to a place where You are not?

And I am duped and here alone?

What do I do to know that this is right?

That You are, because I am?

If I am, then are You? Are You closer

Just because I’ve come through

To meet with You, were You always here?

Always near, waiting for my fingers to

reach out in faith, in darkness

To find You, touch You,

Hold You and draw near.....

I breath in.

1. Below is the hymn that came to my mind and I started to consider His Presence and wonder would I smell Him, what it would be like in real terms! Hence I ended the piece with ‘I breath in’. 
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3. My Lord has garments so wondrous fine,
   And myrrh their texture fills;
   Its fragrance reached to this heart of mine
   With joy my being thrills.
   • Refrain:
     Out of the ivory palaces,
     Into a world of woe,
     Only His great eternal love
     Made my Savior go.
4. His life had also its sorrows sore,
   For aloes had a part;
   And when I think of the cross He bore,
   My eyes with teardrops start.
5. His garments, too, were in cassia dipped,
   With healing in a touch;
   In paths of sin had my feet e’er slipped—
   He’s saved me from its clutch.
6. In garments glorious He will come,
   To open wide the door;
   And I shall enter my heav’nly home,
   To dwell forevermore.