Poem: ‘The
Drifting Arks of the Hearts of Men”
By: Eric Gajewski
From the work, "Fortress of the Soul"
This is the latest poem from the work "Fortress of the Soul". I hope you enjoy it and share it. Long live Christ our King.
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Uponst thy
warm summer shores, I once knewest Thee
Thine Divine
Face ever so clear
Beating in
reflection uponst thy Waters
But it
wast in the Writing, that I wouldst leave
Having
headed for my own ark, I didst part
Drifting
along aimlessly, thinking to be “free”
By self’s haughty
way of “liberty”
In great
irony I wast held captive in prison
On my own
ark called Tyranny
Finding no
rest, so far from thy Sacred Heart
I sawest
the Storms of sin further creeping
I wast thence
pulled out more deeply by my own fault
This
tendency of nature sought to pull me under completely, so overpowering
Now
thirsting and without sail I turnest to thy shores yet again
Pleading
Mercy! Mercy! Mercy! I didst cry
With tears
withheld which only added to my misery
Until Thy hidden Love arose silently so as to guide me
In the gentle flow below of Thy unseen Tide
Which straightened out my path back unto Thee interiorly
For where Ye art my heart wast designed alone to be
Now safely following thy Will’s Footprints
Along this shore I call home with Mary, this Sea Galilee
With goal alone to please and see my Beloved smiling
Alas! Two hearts mystically united so perfectly
How silly! For these chambers within could not beat, there would
be no stability
This heart of mine without Thee wouldst only vainly bleed
But whilst we resist, whilst we still wage war with thy Will
Thou wouldst, on the contrary, in Charity, only seekest to
fill
For how often we fight so ignorantly against our hearts only
Source and End
O’ Lord, how foolish we art!
In this scene which I see perpetually and which now my mind
is painting
Called the drifting Arks of the hearts of men…
'If you desire heaven, you
must walk in the way which leads to heaven; if you should walk in the way which
leads to hell, you will one day unhappily find yourself there.'
'Now although man is
created for the possession of happiness, yet, having deviated from his true
end, his nature has become deformed and is entirely repugnant to true
beatitude. And on this account we are forced to submit to God this depraved
nature of ours which fills our understanding with so many occupations, and
causes us to deviate from the true path, in order that he may entirely consume
it until nothing remains there but himself; otherwise the soul could never
attain stability nor repose, for she was created for no other end.'
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