These are poems about relationships, with lovers, family members, and a God (real or fictitious?)
You!
by Michael R. Burch
For thirty years You have not spoken to me;
I heard the dull hollow echo of silence
as though strange communion between us.
......
Except ye eat this flesh of mine
And drink my blood no life is thine
For my flesh is meat indeed
And from my blood life doth proceed
This is true of food we eat
To Christ we owe our earthly meat
Saint or sinner - all our food
The cross of Calvary has secured
......
These are poems about relationships, with lovers, family members, and a God (real or fictitious?)
You!
by Michael R. Burch
For thirty years You have not spoken to me;
I heard the dull hollow echo of silence
as though strange communion between us.
......
Except ye eat this flesh of mine
And drink my blood no life is thine
For my flesh is meat indeed
And from my blood life doth proceed
This is true of food we eat
To Christ we owe our earthly meat
Saint or sinner - all our food
The cross of Calvary has secured
......