The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin, 2020

Hail holy mother who gave birth to the King.
Who rules Heaven and Earth for ever.
It’s easy her praises to sing.
It’s harder this hope in staying alive to sever.

I used to ask myself frankly, isn’t heaven rather boring.
How could one pass the time living for ever on some dreary constant.
But the essence is not in the being, it is in the knowing.
In heaven there is no time, just one glorious instant.

We don’t know, we cannot imagine what is there.
We cannot truly accept what we have never seen or heard.
But faintly, we encounter stillness and uniqueness in beauty even here.
This encounter with a beautiful sunset is a sensation with Heaven shared.

In Heaven, in one sublime moment, we shall see God and all peoples face to face.
And then without remorse of our time constrained humanity, we will leave scarcely a trace.