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Tie me, like Ulysses,
I do not want to run away
Though I want to hear her song!
Please set me free o Lord!
And you keep on singing!
I don’t like your sins
Yet I long for the
Flames of your eyes
for the thrills of my restless soul!
And I beg you:
please, don’t stop singing.
My heart is bleeding
Day by day
Year after year.
I’m trying to bear my cross
For the sake of God.
Lust makes me thirst again
and again
not like Sychar Well's water
Give me Lord
the everlasting, eternal life water!
I don't want to escape
anymore
There is no more time
to do it.
We cannot search
our dreams
forever.
My dreams are for God
and you are my dreams.
I Don't really know
if I am in love with you
Elem
nor I know what you feel for me.
I do know
your eyes
relief the weight
of my years
giving me the illusion
I can catch today
what I was in search for
yesterday.
But God in my heart
is not an illusion;
it's not a cheat!
Where once reigned the desert
Now it blossomed a flower,
a strong flower of love
living, breathing
in perfect harmony
with the 'invisible yet tangible
God's presence!
And now I know what spoiled
My blind yearnings
of happiness:
the arrogance of claiming affection
which I supposed was
due to me;
the self-conceit
we are only matter,
the pleasure for pleasure,
selfishness as
the only purpose of life.
No, that was not
The right way:
I know now that Love
passes through the paths of God!
The evils in the world are:
The wars engaged by the men of power
Concealing their own advantage
Behind the excuse of high ideals;
The evils in the world are:
The envy of the rich for the rich
And those who do not know
That the poor can feel wealthy;
The evils in the world are:
The insane sexual appetites,
the greed of goods and money
and the supposed superiority;
And the world's diseases
Are part of the
cross
That we carry with us daily;
But one day someone at once
put on His shoulders these evils
to save us from evilness
At the Cross contains all of them.
Thank you Lord Jesus
For coming in our midst
To prove that one can live
Without the worry of power
Without the lure of money
Without the lust of flesh!
Thank you Lord Jesus
You deigned
Dressing shoes
of Man
Showing us that you can
be offended
Hit without hate
With no react of threatening
though derided and mocked
And after all forgiving!
How can we ever forget You
You, who have accepted
To charge up our faults
dying for our salvation?
Please tell me Lord, ‘cause you know it
Tell me Lord, because You know,
if still are
living our fathers
and where lie their spirits?
Where are the loves and the sighs
The ideas that illuminated steps
The power that shook
Thrones by the nations of the world?
And where the pleasures of the flesh
And the wealth of the globe?
Where the ancient human wisdom
That seemed boundless and eternal?
Where is now, that tender mother?
Is that all wasted away for the offspring?
And that hefty father
who seemed all-powerful?
Where are those carefree age games
And the long-awaited youth dreams?
No, no it cannot finish all
During our short life
And all disappear into Nothingness!
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I
How do I think
You are?
And Who are you?
I think the sea
Is Your voice
and the wind is Your breath!
I think you’re your joyful look is the sun
And Your melancholic eye is the moon:
although I know
it is not so!
I think that Your Tears
Of joy and sorrow
Fall down as a rain
from the sky;
but I also think
that my human thought
cannot understand
Who You are and what You think;
but I know that my soul
it is You.
II
Yes You are my soul
when reconciled it flies
on the miseries of the flesh
You are in
daily sacrifices
the tasteful anticipation
of the eternal joy;
it is You
hands outstretched to the poor
eyes faced at the afflicted
meat that generates flesh!
It is you
The mother crying
Christ on the Cross
who dies innocent and misunderstood
every day;
It is you
my soul
strip of Eternity
confined in the ground!
I get up and collapse
Under the weight
Of my slight cross,
very little
comparison
with the Unforgettable Cross
Standing tall on Calvary.
I Collapse and get up again,
on shaky legs,
and shaking heart
that only in Your forgiveness
finds the peace!
After St John 6, 51-58
Quatrains ABAB
“ I’m the living
bread from heaven
If anyone eats of
this bread
He’ll live forever
and ever.
This bread is my
flesh which instead
I’ll give for the
life of the world”
Then the Jews
began to argue
Sharply among
themselves: “ How could
This man give us
his flesh to eat?”
The Son of Man
told: “ I’ tell you
The truth, unless
you eat Jesus’s
Flesh and drink
His blood, you have no
Life in yourself.
Whoever eats
My flesh and
drinks my blood he has
Eternal life and I
will raise
Him up at the last
day. Because
My flesh is real
food and my blood’s
Real drink.
Whoever eats my flesh
And drinks my
blood remains in me
And I in him. Just
as the fresh
Father sent me I’m
living
Because of the
Father, so those
Who feed on me
will live grace for
Of me. This is the
bread not close
To that manna
eaten by your
Forefathers whose
life did render
This bread came
down from heaven and
Who feeds it will
live for ever
Each pity through
It being emend!
