Hound of Heaven Hymns - the hook of reality

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the hook of reality

there is a reverberation
outside of the material
order in which sympathy
realises presence in absence
stretching out flaming out
from body and mind into the
reality of the wholly other
the holy a shining darkness
and all–enveloping nothing
that is everything beyond
things and matter and
ideas a singularity is
claimed and won and
possessed by another in
the journey to eternity and
the hook of our sensibilities
catches the glimpse the
glance the chance of an
intimation which knows no
end I speak because I
know not understand
drawn aroused awakened
to the real realm over
which I have no control
only an invitation to
seek to enter to sing
and rejoice and never
never alone it is the
threshold of heaven
breathe in the other
exhale the self belong
and do not possess
the hook of reality is
not an anchor nor
a nail it is the
open palm and
heart and mind that
lays down life to
receive it no end
no beginning just
the kiss of adoration
and rapture of
being truly truly
loved