
Establishing Enthusiasm
[NOTE: This is a poem from the great late Mexican poet (1935-2009) Marco Antonio Montes de Oca, whom I met and learned so much…
Never underestimate the power of
impossible desire
Flight would never have occurred to us nor
loss of lesser self with God’s encompassing
Presence and ultimate All-pervasiveness
in every domain of our being
Saying what was unknown to us before
on prophetic tongues out of our usual human shallows
turning the tragic momentariness of our life
into a cup of delicious and deliriously
tasted expansion the wine of His illumination and
the drink that slakes all thirsts in a
single swallow by His Grace
the heart’s tongue becoming suddenly capable of
choirs
6/6/2006 (from In the Realm of Neither)
Categories: Poems