Large Mirror in the Hall

Gary Edward Geraci

Pause, gaze and reflect! This youthful image! (Can it be? Is is true?)

Putrid masks shed - - squalid seas of stupor sink,

Gauzed wounds of sin now healed - - each ache and pain sold for penny scars of vices;

A free man’s posture, poise and joy,

Poisoned past with penance, tempered waist with fasting, waste trimmed, and chaste,

Plan of life to live daily, Adoration, self-oblation,

Temptation tried; live, liberated constitution,

Man, mindful of mystery - - stately, sturdy, fit;

Wise with words of wisdom, withstanding

Fads of passing fancy - - friends, stable family;

 

Clean, that clouded glass a ghastly image of the past,

Clean you’ve died to self - - and the self you see is Christ!

 

Gary Edward Geraci

 

“It’s now no longer I that live but Christ lives in me.” Galatians 2:20

  • Author: Gary Edward Geraci (Offline Offline)
  • Published: September 15th, 2018 12:43
  • Comment from author about the poem: To appreciate this poem in its entirety please google and read “A Hand-Mirror” by Walt Whitman.
  • Category: Spiritual
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  • orchidee

    A fine write Gary.

    • Gary Edward Geraci

      Thanks Orchidee and to think I kept the commentary to one sentence....

    • orchidee

      You dropped that mirror? Seven years bad luck? Depends if we believe in 'luck' or not. I don't, so I'm going round breaking mirrors! lol.

    • Gary Edward Geraci

      I try not to drop anything made of glass...but if I do, and I invariably do, I blame it on the fact that I am over the age of fifty...



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