How do we imagine beauty - Against a bleak backdrop something of a contrast...helpful? I hope...a completely new text.
How do we imagine beauty,
wonder, words cannot express?
Something felt, beyond our vision,
love incarnate, nothing less?
Here and now all life is timeless,
here we're lifted out of self,
now beyond all expectation,
human sense, or worldly wealth.
Can eternity be fathomed?
Glimpse the feeling, sense the sound,
breathe the spirit of creation,
ground of being, sought and found.
Here a mystery unravels,
yet withheld from human sight:
simply trust, with faith the given,
God is beauty, love and light.
Andrew Pratt written 22/6/2025
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Metre: 8.7.8.7 D
Tune: CALON LAN
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