Tuesday, January 21, 2020

As If


Detail From The Adoration of the Magi
Hieronymus Bosch
Metropolitan Museum, New York 

As If

It was as if
We were climbing out
Of a great cave
Through mud,
Through clouds of swifts
And swallows

Past travelers and trains,
Past ones who wished
To stay where they were
And keep us there, too

Past blindness
That hid our eyes from ourselves

We climbed
Into the silence
Never reaching it

Although we could hear its sound
From afar.





May your heart be close to God, 
and God close to your heart.















Lee


Lee van Laer is a Senior Editor at Parabola Magazine.

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