Friday, September 5, 2025

ACT OF CONTRITION

I suppose enough 
words have been 
wasted on this, but 

without the force 
of love's 
greed to restrain us, 

what downward 
pressure would 
ever be great enough 

to push us once 
or twice in a life
to our knees 

with such resolute 
and terrible ease—
what better place 

from which to see:
what better 
posture than this 

from which
to worship or 
to grieve?