Words and Thoughts, for Life
Pilgrims
From many lands
.
They came
To a place of silence
.
Where symbols
Spoke in stone
.
And sunlight
Coloured the windows
.
With grace
And the space
.
Created
By their pilgrimage
.
Was an opportunity
For heaven
.
To be incarnated
In a human heart.
.
Inspired by Shrewsbury Abbey
Can we build
Icons to eternity?
.
Or are they created
Through our artists’ hands?
.
How did God
Put heaven in our hearts
.
By these stones
This empty space
.
This wondrous
Light?
A place
Of significance
.
Where kings
Have knelt
.
Paupers
Have prayed
.
Where life and death
Have been debated
.
And a poet
Still pleads from the grave
.
Where floods have arisen
And abated
.
And new creations
Continually rise up to heaven
.
A place
Passed over
.
By a million travellers
Intent on other things
.
While the pilgrim
Pauses
.
Stays
And prays.
.
Inspired by Shrewsbury Abbey
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