some poetry to begin

He Asked For Charity

God came to my house and asked for charity, 

And I fell on my knees and cried, 

"Beloved, what may I give?"

"Just love," He said. "Just love."

Otherwise The Darkness

I have a cause. 

We need those don't we?

Otherwise the darkness and the cold gets in

and everything starts to ache.

My soul has a purpose, 

it is to love;

if I do not fulfill

my heart's vocation, 

I suffer.

If God Invited You To A Party

If God

invited you to a party and said, 

"Everyone in the ballroom tonight

will be my

special guest,"

how would you then treat them when you arrived?

Indeed, Indeed!

And Hafiz knows that there is no one in this world

who is not standing upon

His jeweled dance floor. 

The Sun Never Says 

Even after all this time

the sun never says to the earth,

"You owe me."

Look what happens

with a love like that-

it lights the
whole world

Excerpt from The Confessions


Late have I loved you, Beauty, so ancient and so new, late have I loved you.


Lo, you were within,
but I outside, seeking there for you,
and upon the shapely things you have made
I rushed headlong - I, misshapen.


You were with me, but I was not with you.
They held me back far from you,
those things which would have no being,
were they not in you.


You called, shouted, broke through my deafness;
you flared, blazed, banished my blindness;
you lavished your fragrance, I gasped;
and now I pant for you;
I tasted you, and now I hunger and thirst;
you touched me, and I burned for your peace.


When at last I cling to you with my whole being
there will be no more anguish or labor for me,
and my life will be alive indeed,
alive because filled with you.