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
Villanelle inspired by the teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas regarding the separation of a human being’s body and soul at death. For most of us, It won’t be until Christ’s second coming that we receive our resurrected and glorified bodies to spend everlasting life in heaven or hell (hell: the glorified body and soul lacking a love for God). For more information watch in YouTube: The Immortality of the Soul (Aquinas 101) by the Thomistic Institute.
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