Consumed By You

 

Want to be consumed by you,

Course through your inner being,

Spread into your heart and through

The senses used for seeing.

For strength is in One Body,

To be one with the many,

The Kerygma embodied,

Open to welcome any.

Eat this Bread to be humble,

To better love your neighbor,

Get back up when you stumble,

Be quick to grant a favor.

I come to make you stronger,

A daily boost in union;

With siblings you’ll go further;

Far stronger in communion.

Pursue not for power’s sake,

Spent on your own selfish ends,

But embrace this Kingdom ache,

To forever live with friends.

Gary Edward Geraci

Love Within The Lines

 

“love breaks all rules” seems like love

broke, impoverished, love lacking;

the city of man, a love lackey.

why not love within the Lines?

excel, flourish, flower;

a euphoric, excellent End:

permanence, mirth, bliss;

Love within the Lines.

Gary Edward Geraci

Safe Haven

Safe haven, swaddled baby on her back

Lies in wait, a newborn whose turn is fate,

A dependable stranger’s hand, saved: sack

Tossed over and into garbage with hate.

Safe haven, for Heaven’s sake, seventy

Two hours; save your life from haunted hell,

Seek the shelter where there’s no enmity

And give the babe a life to live and tell.

Gary Edward Geraci 

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Christ on the Throne

Bit frustrated

Less elated

Should have waited

For confession

Full of scruples

There’s no loopholes 

Or refusals

That’s the lesson

Got a blessing

No absolving 

Without sinning

A priest’s question

Did your sin harm?

Perhaps disarm?

Or cause alarm?

Then you’ve got none!

Now go in peace

Your good increase

Keep your wife please

You’re a good son!

Gary Edward Geraci

Tell it to the Trees

Irresistible! 

Invigorating scented pine boxes and framing members; use to hold 

Nuts and nests-

places of refuge;

the earth’s air scrubbers;

wood of my redemption. 

A deciduous forest

filled with brush and fallen conifers.

A consecrated man once told me it was OK to love a woman other than my wife as long as I loved her purely.

Gary Edward Geraci