Friday, May 26, 2017
Those Ancient Saints
These Ancient Saints
These ancient saints
had a special privilege:
in their caves or forest retreats
they could be nothing but bliss
all day and through the night.
Their bodies flowed
with unceasing rapture,
and essence of God
flavored
each breath,
each bite of food,
every step.
The rest of us stumble,
have to wake up,
pay bills,
watch the latest news
as our world
tumbles apart,
worry about the future,
if it will come.
Occasionally
we enter the
lost realm,
recapture for
a brief moment
our forgotten selves,
our passionate pleadings
and untellable joy.
But this is the way
it is supposed to be,
the choices we made,
the purpose of why we came.
Dorothy Walters
May 24, 2017
