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An Imperfect Life

poetry by Fr. Harold Macdonald

The Series

 

 

Truth Authenticates Itself

 

Truth authenticates itself, swiftly lights

its neighbours, shows at once the raison d’etre,

how things and people actually connect,

enables new constructions on its sites.

So pow’rful truth, that caution is advised;

carts o’erturned, apples rolling down the street!

Proves, pounding chaff produces not the wheat

authorities are gloomily surprised!

Untried perspective shows the thing anew

One needs the wit and courage there to stand

to be the first to see; to understand

the look unlookable, the virgin view.

I have seen this truth, how it will turn the heart;

object, subject both made new, its Godlike art.

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