UNVEILING THE HEART
The spirit of prophecy guided me to this spring of living water
Where all living things are made a-new: son, daughter
Neither shall there be mourning, all tears washed away
Live with the full force of a Jesuit priest today.
Pass through the door that can never be locked
Don't whine like a man who knows he's out of time.
Casuistry and sophistry work together
To blind men: in rain or shine or stormy weather.
Poetry's more about the wine than the whine, she said,
seek to express the inexpressibility of time, instead.
A true poet makes the difficult easy
Turns water into wine, in a half-truncated line,
Caesuras can soar into the words that burn:
Pull out his eyes! Pull out his eyes!
Apologise! Apologise!
I will not apologise,? if it cost me my life,
I will never apologise but I spit in the face
Of all the stupidities of the human race.
To encounter a sniffer out of intelligence causes me such glee.
Away with all those premature gravediggers, Flee!
All those who condemn the weak, the fragile and the free
To all these gainsayers of the heart, I say shift the shade and set us free,
Seek the good in you and me,
Break free, from this all-abiding stupidity.