Love “mystic” or merely human?

Countless the references
to divine love, ineffable pleasures
and soaring elevations envisioned.

But wanting in passion and exaltation
the rare references
to the young couple from Cana
to whose marriage vows you offered
the sweetest wine the world has known.

His love may be
simple, everyday, the usual thing;
nonetheless true, for it is human
as you moulded us of earthly clay.

But the divine breath you “inspired” within us
grafted to our being
Love, Passion, Creation...

Of this our human hypostasis
-beautiful in its ugliness-
we are trying so hard to tune
its mystic pulse to the rhythm
of everlasting Creation…

6 Sep. 2004