You have pierced our hearts with the arrow of Your love.

St. Augustine

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Augustine’s Confessions, 10.27.38

A Poem by Timothy Murphy

Wrongly thinking that beauty lay without,
blindly I cast about.
How late did I begin
to realize your beauty lay within.
To one bereft of sight
you said Let there be light.
Thus to my deafened ear
you called, you cried!
hoping that I might hear.
I thirsted, hungered, yearned.
You touched me, and I burned.
How late I came to you,
to beauty ever ancient, ever new.
How late I came to you.

Posted by Carlos J. Medina

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