Frank Horne: To You

To You

All my life
they told me
that You
would save my soul
that only
by kneeling in Your house
and eating of Your body
and drinking of Your blood
could I be born again...
And yet
one night
in the tall black shadow
of a windy pine
I offered up
the sacrifice of Body
upon the altar
of her breast...
You
who were conceived
without ecstasy
or pain
can You understand
that I knelt last night
in Your house
and ate of Your body
and drank of Your blood
...and only thought of her?

-Frank Horne
from "Letters Found Near a Suicide"

Saint Francis of Assisi