The Arms of Mary

As the night falls across limitless skies

I wait for thee

Chasing this  innocence 

Down pathways of mortality

I patiently follow in lock step with beauty

And occasionally 

I fall into trance

And in this romance

I wonder with the eyes of a child

New and unseen miracles arrive

And in this place 

I am not I nor it

For  I am complete

When I meet this Radiant

Presence so great

Venus bestows

Her gifts

And I once more the spell bound boy

Am called  to make union

With divine ecstasy

How can I take

Such a longing

Days and nights

Awake and asleep

Still with bare feet

I follow thee

And down this path to freedom

As  I watch her naked grace

Hypnotize my body

And mesmerize

My soul

I know

I have fallen

Into the arms of Mary

A poem by

Liam Herdman

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