Urban Exploration

That was a beautiful day, full of pleasant light, unlike the last couple of days.

*** LEARN HOW TO WONDER ***
In church learn how to wonder,
that the Holy Host is so small
it could hide within the little hands
of the girl in white shortest of them all
yet before it crowds sink to their knees,
burst out crying, confess,
that boys with berry-black tongues, shirtless
to spite grandmothers, rush
through the church's half-open door
and, awed at the church's solemnity,
suddenly hush.
And think — how astonishing
that God was once not a king,
but a child, with a mother, like us
So many mysteries, dogmas,
martyrs, sinners like Judas,
and yet always new believers
That one, without a single prayer,
can have a change of heart
and simply believe in Him
from all this wonderment


Jan Twardowski