Oh Lord! Merciful and benevolent What’s with thy holy name
Cause of all causes
Force of all forces
Infinite among the finite
Watcher of the unwatchable
Doer of the yet undone
Why does thou need a holy name?
Does the name distort thee
Does the name restrain thee
Does the name create violence in vain
Oh creator of the created
Blesser of the blessed
Help us get over the name
Oh master of the masters
Yet lover of all souls
Help us get over the name
Thanks to my friend Natasha for sharing the story of St.Augustine ; which seems to capture the essence of the poem
ReplyDeleteThe Story of St. Augustine and the Boy at the Beach
as recounted in the Golden Legend,
written in A.D. 1275 by Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa
Many other miracles hath God showed by his [St. Augustine's] life, and also after his death, which were overlong to write in this book, for they would, I suppose, contain a book as much as all this and more, but among other corrections, I will set herein one miracle, which I have seen painted on an altar of St. Austin at the black friars at Antwerp, howbeit I find it not in the legend, mine exemplar, neither in English, French, ne in Latin.
It was so that this glorious doctor made and compiled many volumes, as afore is said, among whom he made a book of the Trinity, in which he studied and mused sore in his mind, so far forth that on a time as he went by the sea-side in Africa, studying on the Trinity, he found by the sea-side a little child which had made a little pit in the sand, and in his hand a little spoon. And with the spoon he took out water of the large sea and poured it into the pit.
And when St. Augustin beheld him he marvelled, and demanded him what he did. And he answered and said: "I will lade out and bring all this water of the sea into this pit."
"What?" said he, "it is impossible, how may it be done, sith the sea is so great and large, and thy pit and spoon so little?"
"Yes, forsooth," said he, "I shall lightlier and sooner draw all the water of the sea and bring it into this pit than thou shalt bring the mystery of the Trinity and His Divinity into thy little understanding as to the regard thereof; for the Mystery of the Trinity is greater and larger to the comparison of thy wit and brain than is this great sea unto this little pit."
And therewith the child vanished away. Then here may every man take ensample that no man, and especially simple lettered men, ne unlearned, presume to intermit ne to muse on high things of the Godhead, farther than we be informed by our faith, for our only faith shall suffice us.
Thank you Parker my son,
ReplyDeleteThere is nothing in a name
Plurality in life is fun,
Casuality of truth is insane.
You addressed your poem to me,
You put the blame on God’s ‘name’
The truth is for all to see
that all gods are not the same.
There is a different personality
to every god that you have known
with a different concept of reality
of why you laugh, cry or moan
Truth cannot contradict itself
So all philosophies can’t be true
As you continue to search yourself
Know this Son that I love you.
-God