Our Longing

Why do we long for hills so far away
And for the sunset disappears behind
To bring the night that with us never stays–
Prepares for sun to rise o’er humankind?

The birth and death of every day reminds
Each one of us of his mortality
And of our longing for new life we find
When dawn bathes hills in new light that’s death free.

Come, Jesus, with your Resurrection’s dawn
To mercy bring to all of us below:
Your heaven’s light for which we’ve always longed
And can on earth through You begin to know.

Our longing for those hills so far away
Is longing for your dawn of heaven’s day.