Beatific Visions

16 July 2022

I doubt those people on television
realize they're dressed like angels,
calling us back to a realm we reject,
and I think it's a bit out of place
to put these hopes in masters of commerce,
when such hopes are sky-born or nothing.
What see we in movie stars anyway?
Billboards, book covers, and internet ads
still elicit our peasant repentance.
What for? For not being divine enough,
same as before, and yet let me explain:
none are holy. You're made it this far,
you must know that by now.

It's amazing, isn't it, just how much
thought there has been about everything.

Thereby I wander, but what does it mean
to be lost in a place that is lost?
It means everything. Stand here with me
and observe that at last
all the cracks in the firmament
outline a God-shaped hole.

We are ready for solid food,
culled from earth,
even that which comes only through violence.