PRECIOUS GRAVITY.

I am saddened

Every time I hear

Of the passing of a friend;

But must always to the laws

Of our human condition

And the supremacy

Of our Eternal God bend.

 

Understand poor pilgrim!

Comprehend your own

Coming journey;

Rend your melancholy!

Know that

All that God is and

All that God can be

Is merciful and good.

 

Would you be blind to that

Because of your pain?

Rejoice!

Pray that we each are holy!

See that as your goal,

The strength of your soul;

Because precious

In the sight of the Lord

Is the death of his holy ones.

 

Tomorrows creep upon us

So that we might record yesterdays

As dead, so today

We might be led by the light

Of thousands of yesterdays

That light candles to Eternity.

 

Our candles to ourselves

Only create shadows

For the player we think we are.

Eternity is in the light

We see dimly and

In the dark moments

Which we cannot understand.

 

Orphans from conception

We must turn

To that Eternal Being

To that Light,

To find that,

Contrary to our experience,

We are forever alone among men and

Never alone amidst forever.

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WHAT CARE

Cannot say I care

For anything or anybody

Times I realize

They are just like me,

When I do not make

The Christ and His Spirit

The only thing

That I want to see.

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