luminous and demanding
It comes and goes
Like the wind over the water -
Sometimes, for days,
You don't think of it.
Maybe, after the sermon,
After the multitude was fed,
One or two of them felt
The soul slip forth.
like a tremor of pure sunlight
before exhaustion
that wants to swallow everything,
gripped their bones and left them.
miserable and sleepy,
as they are now, forgetting
how the wind tore at the sails
before he rose and talked to it ---
tender and luminous and demanding
as he always was ---
a thousand times more frightening
than the killer sea.
Like the wind over the water -
Sometimes, for days,
You don't think of it.
Maybe, after the sermon,
After the multitude was fed,
One or two of them felt
The soul slip forth.
like a tremor of pure sunlight
before exhaustion
that wants to swallow everything,
gripped their bones and left them.
miserable and sleepy,
as they are now, forgetting
how the wind tore at the sails
before he rose and talked to it ---
tender and luminous and demanding
as he always was ---
a thousand times more frightening
than the killer sea.
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