indictment

he wished to lay naked
bare as a board laying beneath his bed
with sun and wind and sea swells
lapping upon the shore of his thighs

he wished to walk naked
so naked that shame was just a tissue
steering the breeze, flowing warm
like the sun when the snow falls

he wished to play naked
shaking every part of him with glee
in the sand or climbing a tree
making love and wishing for more

he wished to pray naked
that God might see him thoroughly
and all puritans would flee for Rome
sailing back to Merry Eng-a-land

then you, o Christ, could come bursting in on the scene
and find him lounging as if in a dream
for he loved figments, not persons
as if there is no passion beyond dreams



*We are only absolutely, infallibly certain of the will of God concerning the past.  Everything that has happened, whatever it may be, is in accordance with the will of the almighty Father.....The future also, whatever it may contain, once it has come about, will have come about in conformity with the will of God.....We have to desire that everything that has happened should have happened, and nothing else.  We have to do so, not because what has happened is good in our eyes, but because God has permitted it, and because the obedience of the course of events to God is in itself an absolute good.
-Simone Weil