black faces
white faces
brown faces
faces of ev-
‘ry color
look magnif-
‘icent in
flowing white
robes of Heav’n
where my Love
for him or
her (or her
or her) is
no longer
a scandal
or a sin
-Gary Edward Geraci
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Author:
Gary Edward Geraci (
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- Comment from author about the poem: In my poem “To Every Human Being Whom Ever Lived Or Will Live Even If For Only A Few Seconds” I appeal to the ultimate end; eternal life in heaven, deigned for human souls, if we so choose it. While Jesus certainly didn’t have to suffer, he incarnated and lived among us, suffering along the way. But he spoke of a future where there would be no suffering, where there would be a communion, a pure love - love with a capital “L”: Love. Here, now, many confuse lust with love and shortchange themselves. We see the negative effects all around us. Use of symbolism in our human language such as ‘white robes’, a symbol of purity, can inspire us to think more about eschatology - “the part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of human kind” and ‘her (or her or her)’, the symbol of a masculine, universal longing for Love, as pointing us to the eternal fulfillment of our eschatological destiny. The diverse ‘faces’ remind us “all peoples, irrespective of ethnic, gender, and social distinctions, are equal candidates for salvation and sonship in Christ.” (Galatians 3:28, Colossians 3:11; Catechism of the Catholic Church 791 - the Catholic Study Bible version 6.0, Ignatius Press). Poetry attempts to convey all of this within a certain economy of words, here, pre-dominantly, with just 3 syllables per line (trimeter).
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Comments3
So true.
Thank you Goldfinch60 for your read and comment.
Love in the mind which strives for purity. No sin or scandal here.
One can love infinitely more souls when one does so within the realm of this purity ordained by God. It’s well worth the effort to keep beginning again and again if that’s what it takes.
A fine write Gary.
Thank you Orchidee for your read and comment.
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