Being On Both Sides

Rev. Jeffrey Symynkywicz, February 3, 2002

Of course, this world is but illusion,
a thin veneer, really:
in all its beauty, majesty, and glory,
in all its pain and sorrow, toil and strife.
It is but an outer shell, occasionally translucent,
over the deeper realm where the Spirit dwells
and all is Being, all is one.

But corporeal form needs corporeal light,
and these little beings which we each are,
though we bear the breath of God within us,
need bodily lives to lead. We need to feel the living:
savory morsels to taste; bodies to love;
fulsome lips to kiss; the glory of color to behold.
We need all these many miracles of the world,
which sometimes seem to overwhelm us
and lead us deeper in our journey toward the Spirit.

Though it may seem a divided domain--
God on one side of the Wall and we on the other--
in fact, of course, all creation is one:
the angels inside of us are but God writ small;
writ in a language these feeble eyes can read;
spoken in a language these deafened ears can hear;
reflected in our smaller glory, our little game,
that gives us something to hold onto
when the stormy night has gone on too long,
and we wait impatiently for the springtime of our souls.

jbs
1/8/01 - 2/3/02

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