The Grail - St Teresa of Avila

    They are like shy, young school kids -
    time and space
    before the woman and the man who are
    intimate with God.
    The realised soul can play with this universe
    the way a child can a ball...

    A chalice - the Grail - my body became, for it held the Christ
    and he drank
    from me.

    Sanctified are our limbs,
    for every heart has touched God,
    though most with closed eyes.

    A holy relic is each creature,
    and beauty may worry
    about its comeliness waning.

    We fear dying 'til we know the truth of ourselves.

    The seams on my body
    are torn;

    I have stepped from that region of me
    that did not love
    all the time.

    There is a divine world of light
    with many suns in the sky.

    I slept with my Lord
    one night,

    now all that is luminous
    I know we
    conceived.

    St Teresa of Avila (1515 - 1582)

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