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An Imperfect Life

poetry by Fr. Harold Macdonald

The Series

 

The Far Away Hill

 

Love, an old inferno on a hill,

burns still, burns all

God’s fire, God’s will.

 

It consumes all waste

suck up the gall

sweets the mouth, the taste.

 

We need to find

that one, kind, cruelty

among the million lives maligned.

 

So many bitter deaths!

Can another save,

as Scripture saith?

 

Only if it’s God who dies!

Only the very Self divine

can equalize,

 

can touch all time

purge every suffering life;

abysses climb!

 

That one death proclaims

a goodness shared,

the name above all names.

 

From this death, all other life

finds breath;

The end of hate, of strife.