TRIP TO HISTORIC BATH POEM 20

Visiting the Cathedral in Bath was an intense experience, as prayer was going on and it was possible to join in. Life is a deeply ritualistic event, with tea in the morning with toast and all the daily tasks falling into a schedule made by constraint and demand outside of your own. So to chance upon such a deep ritual was serendipitous and deeply special.

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“I prefer painting people’s eyes to cathedrals, for there is something in the eyes that is not in the cathedral, however solemn and imposing the latter may be — a human soul, be it that of a poor beggar or of a street walker, is more interesting to me.” Vincent van Gogh

Upwards

I look and see a tomb,

My eyes raise upwards,

Towards the heavens,

Past the saints displayed.

I am bold to look,

But invited I stare,

Looking for meaning,

In statues of stone and glass.

I berate myself for

Longing, desiring something,

Greater than myself,

A hope fervent but futile.

You reach to me and touch me,

An I am restored by you,

For you do love me deeply,

And unconditionally as I need.

“Watch your thoughts, they become your words; watch your words, they become your actions; watch your actions, they become your habits; watch your habits, they become your character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny.” Lao Tzu