Your Unmatched Holiness........ Poem by RIC BASTASA

to bow my head
kneel down
and admit that
after all
i am as human
as you
erring in the
dignity of
our humanity

after which
we understand
those who live
and die before
us, those who
never said a
word, those who
merely gaze at
the faults of
other people,

our frailties
are our crowns
of glories
our way of
keeping the stones
under the house
not throwing them
to the new
adulterer in this
worn out village

we understand now
the meaning of dusts
the implications of
our common sins
we cooperate now
with the union of
forgivers
we know, we keep
all these things
unwritten, untold,
uncomplaining

and when we face
our God
we are ready with
our simplest
answers: we have
sinned and we
are always the
undeserving
worshipers of
your unmatched
holiness.