Brother Body

Brother body we’ve now gone our separate way,

Like angels we are not for they are pure spirit,

Broken I’ll be until we reunite some day.

What used to inform my soul lies to pass away,

We fought hard, our battles big and never pyrrhic.

Brother body we’ve now gone our separate way.

The great judgement I have passed without guilt or sway

And time for purgation will seem but a minute.

Broken I’ll be until we reunite some day.

Can I explain? I persist to be while decay

Or fire, I don’t know which, has reduced what’s finite?

Brother body we’ve now gone our separate way.

A wide realm free of depth, length, height, or pain, I’d play

With the joy of one who has life without limit.

Broken I’ll be until we reunite some day.

Since man is flesh and the senses instruct; a stray

Soul I am, my risen body to inherit.

Brother body we’ve now gone our separate way,

Broken I’ll be until we reunite some day.

Gary Edward Geraci