I suppose it makes sense to want to see justice in the world. Those who do wrong ought to be punished. But something happened to me early in life to add other considerations. My mother, who was raised Catholic and sent to Catholic schools, had no inclination to see me follow ther path. She merely [...]
Tag: spirituality
Moment
As many of us have begun To leave behind our myths And peer anew With clearer, stronger eyes Into the nighttime sky, A sober reverence grows For the glory of the heavens. And to turn the scope as well To the infinitesimal, We behold the inscrutability Of that which makes us And all around us [...]
Fragments
We come from pieces strewn about– Primordial debris– From cataclysmic deaths of stars And birth of worlds to be. Our mass condensed from matter cast Twice our world’s age ago Into a realm whose vastness slips Our vain impulse to know. This substance we presume our own– Our essence, we suppose– A garment for a [...]
Destination
The noblest heart knows not to scorn The grasping of the sad and lost Whose pleasant poisons leave them torn Between exhaust and cost. Nor would a wise and kindly eye Look ill upon the lush elect Who pile their riches to the sky And to them genuflect. The true soul walks a patient path, [...]