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Poem: “A Hymn to the Sacrifice”

A Hymn to the Sacrifice

I saw the truth of it
Of death’s imprisonment,
A circle under circles
In the darkness of the devils

Round and round a sphere was cast
In the future and the past,
Unbreakable and thick
Except by flame and candle wick

God’s magnificence descending
From a glory never-ending –
Life by life was sent
Through that dark integument

In that flesh and in that prison
Of the heart they made incision,
In whose hands and in whose feet
Wood and flesh and iron meet

Pavel
June 30, 2011