Pilgrimage
Where is the temple of the heart?
What rituals are performed?
What sacrifices
precious, wild, and dark
are laid upon that altar?
I would be an acolyte
in that dreadful cult.
I would offer homage
to the majesty and might.
But the scriptures of the heart
have never been set down.
The tongue of the heart
cannot be transliterated.
That is not a book of blank pages:
no pages
no book.
So who will perform
the rite of initiation?
What spirit guide will
without a word
without raising a hand
point the way?
I would fall in line
and join the solemn glad procession.
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