So You Could See Me

I've loved you since I made you, yet you flee me.
You swear the sky is empty as your days;
You say that you look up and cannot see me.

The only prayer you send is, "Let me be!"
Like one who dreads being granted what he prays.
I've loved you since I made you, though you flee me.

You think Spring cruel because it probes the sleepy
Root, demands the stalk spring up toward unseen rays;
Spring is my message: Rise! And you will see me.

I was the One who made the dark uneasy
When you lay down to hide beneath sleep's haze.
I loved, so could not spare you, though you flee me.

You would not come, so I came to you, freely
Joined you in the dark of sorrow's maze,
I wait at every turning though you flee me;
I let them hang me there, so you could see me.