Christian Mysticism

Is the essential milieu

For a providential encounter

With the Tremendous Lover

Whose civilization of love

Is the liberating prophylaxis

For a generation

Engaged in a perplexing flirtation

With the Angel of Death

Christian Mysticism

Is the School of freedom

Where only the language

Of sacrificial love

Is spoken

And where the alabaster jar

Of self-indulgence

Is broken

That the sweet fragrance

Of self-transcendence

May flourish

But only the daring

Need apply.