The world has so little soul
Because it has forgotten its earliest journey;
Its journey in the darkness and the silence of the womb:
In a time before time began,
When the Eternal spoke to us more than this day
And I did not think I had so much to hear or to say.
Alone was everything and nothing
Because I had all I could need
Floating in an ocean of contentment,
Feeling the warmth
Of my maker’s every thought, word and deed
For my good.
Should I forget this heaven so quickly?
Could I compare anything to its glory?
If only I would remember
That it is the memory of my soul;
That soul which calls to me
Apart from the world, alone
In the silence and the darkness and the peace.
Release me and I will return there;
We all shall,
Because it is only that journey
Which is even truer than our blood
When it comes to our good.
Yes, each womb holds the eternal pilgrimage,
The soul of the Eternal;
And it can never be held highly enough
In reverie or esteem;
It is why Mary, the mother of the Christ
Is honored so.
Go, bend your knees,
Close your eyes,
Find your peace
And remember your eternal soul,
Your first pilgrimage.
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If dakness and silence
Are the marks of the soul,
One can see how the world
And even sunlight
Could take its toll;
And how duty or prayer or
A routine of work
Must be considered with attention
And more than a modicum of care
That the soul of the giver and receiver
Might be there
In an exchange
That leaves each one less fractured
And more whole.
So the journey continues
Over years of ambition
With too little thought
That we find some contrition
For the misdirected, unreflected,
Confused, soul-less human condition
Where we look to another tomorrow as our goal.
But the end calls as in the beginning
In the very same silence, peace and dark
And the pilgrim will know
That it is the eternal which is calling
And that it is that calling which it must hark
Only if it remembers it from the womb
And the days throughout its human pilgrimage
That it did mark
The Truth and the Spirit in the Soul
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