2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time 2024

Landon Johnson • February 29, 2024

How Must It Be?

How must it be, o man of men, to gaze upon that lake?

The scent of creeping evening breeze?

How must it seem to breathe and taste

Mingling salts of sweat and seas?


How must it feel at end of days

When labors' cost leaves body spent--

Aching arms earned honest wage

And stiffened back o'er fire is bent?


How must it be, o meekest man,

To patiently thy hunger sate?

A simple fish o'er flame prepared--

All afforded to thee partake.


How must it feel for calloused hands

To draw thy roughspun tunic close

Against the cold, as darkness falls,

Which poignant thought will grip thee most?


Is it the somber cloak thou wear?

The rope-burned hands from evening's catch?

Or is't thy reflection in that lake--

The face of God in humble flesh?

Pax et Bonum

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