A Hymn To The Lord In Lent Poem by Daniel Brick

This prayer was inspired by the music
of Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-20070) :
TO BRING CELESTIAL MUSIC TO HUMAN BEINGS
AND HUMAN MUSIC TO CELESTIAL BEINGS,
SO THAT HUMANS MAY LISTEN TO GOD AND
GOD MAY HEAR HIS CHILDREN.

Rejoice, my Immortal Soul,
rejoice because you are rendered
as pure as the original energy,
as radiant as the original matter
of the Cosmos in the Holy Week of Creation!

Who would dare to stain the work of
the Highest Lord, the Primal EL,
by calling His World a source of evil,
a sink of pollution, a swamp of - ?
Oh, unworthy words in a poem of praise.

Your own mind revels in the joy
of the Truth of Things. It is so much
bigger than your mind of three million
years can grasp in its imaginings. But
that is no concern of yours or God's.

Your own heart is lifted in fierce joy
by the Sympathy of Things. It is so much
more unified than you can grasp. All things
animated by God's Word exude love. But
that is no concern of yours or God's.

Your own body succumbs to God's majesty
in deep humility. And from this worship
springs a noble pride, the first stage
of your apotheosis, as prophecied. But
that is no concern of yours or God's.

These discrete happenings that are absorbed
separately by mind or heart or body, these
broken pieces of knowledge will coalesce
into a complete knowledge of the World. But
that is no concern of yours or God's.

You were favored in the past... in God's fixed gaze.
Now you are raised in glory... in God's presence.
This is your true concern, God's everlasting concern.
You are a human being no longer, you have been raised to
the Glory Realm in which angels bustle and God is ever present.
Alleluia! Alleluia! ! Alleluleia! ! !