At your spiritual service
Your blindness is much more than ordinary eyesight
since by your clairvoyance you can see what others can not see
and thus see only what is best in man
since you bring forth his soul and see it only
disregarding all the morbid outside shallowness
stuck in the flesh and in the problems of futility
that, fixed in egoism, is bent on vulgar opportunity
which you can't see and thus fall prey to selfish folly
of the coarse ambition of shortsightedness;
while few like you mind only the importance of the soul
and see it through in all its beauty of imperishableness
thus bringing forth the best part of your neighbour
to some dangerous degree of spiritual hubris and intoxication
which they can not handle, since they are not used to it
and need some discipline to learn how to control it,
and thus they turn into your abusers of ingratitude.
To our good fortune there are some exceptions,
and I must regard it as my privilege in that capacity
as number one to humbly serve you as a friend and colleague
in whatever needs you ever might encounter.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2006-10-09 at 10:21
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