Like Mary

Be like Mary
who had countless lovers
and never sinned
because she was only searching
for the One
who would meet her in the garden
of her own breath.
Be like Radha
who became the trembling silence
of an empty flute
at Govinda's lips.
As the planter takes up the hoe
and the minstrel his lyre,
let Christ take up the instrument
of your body.
Become the music
you yearn to hear.


Image: Mary Magdalene by Dante Gabriel Rossetti