THE SAND OF EMOTION - (after a homily by Pope Francis)

THE SAND OF EMOTION

- (after a homily by Pope Francis)

The sand of emotion is good
for adding in aggregate for use in
a cement that makes for concrete.
All you need is a working recipe.

Try '5,2,1' for starters, say, that is,
five shovelfuls of gravel, (it must be
real stone, a crush of the rock), then
two shovelfuls of your said sand of

emotion, even if you must break it
from the languid beaches of feeling,
or smash it of the hourglass of time,
plus one shovelful of lime cement.

Mix well with enough water in a barrow
or a revolving drum mixer and
you will be able to lay down a path
that will firm up to a walk a future.

- WDK - July 2014