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
