a Sabbath poem

Thanks to Faith House for this love poem

A Sabbath Poem (St. Catherine)

HIS LIPS UPON THE VEIL
~by St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)

He has never left you.

It is just
that your soul is so vast
that just like

the earth in its innocence,
it may think,

“I do not feel my lover’s warmth
against my face right
now.”

But look, dear,
is not the sun reaching down its arms
and always holding a continent
in its light?

God cannot leave us.
It is just that our soul is so vast,

we do not always feel His lips
upon the
veil.
(from the Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices
from the East and West, translation Daniel Ladinsky

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