Thursday, February 9, 2012

"On Prayer" poem

You ask me how to pray to someone who is not.

All I know is that prayer constructs a velvet bridge

And walking it we are aloft, as on a springboard,

Above landscapes the color of ripe gold

Transformed by a magic stopping of the sun.

That bridge leads to the shore of Reversal

Where everything is just the opposite and the word 'is'

Unveils a meaning we hardly envisioned.

Notice: I say we; there, every one, separately,

Feels compassion for others entangled in the flesh

And knows that if there is no other shore

We will walk that aerial bridge all the same.



~~Czeslaw Milosz

Polish poet (1911-2004)

2 comments:

Scott K Cox said...

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Scott Cox

Terri said...

Compassion for people entangled in the flesh! Wow.