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WORD versus SILENCE I

Words that are like children



March 21st, 2021
world poetry day

On this day when we celebrate words, we hope that they bring us ever closer to the Word that has been bequeathed to us in Jesus. May the Gospel receive from each one of us a house in which to dwell, a field in which to bear fruit and a praise of gratitude.




A child rises up
from the cradle of every word.

If you sleep,
We took our time memorizing his features
In the silence of their fallow land.
Wake up,
We reap wonders
The amazement of his senses.
It grows
In the long stretch of time
Making us grow
In the slow understanding of life.

The words are children
That make you get up in the middle of the night
For they only find rest in the lap of promise

To recreate a gesture where they can lie down
And wake up again
To leave everything out of place.

They clutter up the house and life.
And if not,
if there's no noise and no joy
falling and crying
paint on the walls
scratched sofas and the heartiest laughter,
I'd better take a look

Because the word is a party
Happy are those invited to the supper of truth.

Then your words are inconvenient and inappropriate children
To uncover the certainties that we have closed unfinished.
And stumped by questions that were so simple
And rightly so,
We reinvent ourselves contrite and humiliated
The promise of listening,
The student's hunger,
The confidence of the poor.
We don't know where they come from or where they're going:
Your words are children growing up
At night.

Each of them is given a house
A field and praise.

Verónica Benedito, asm
Voice of Fausto Raínho Ferreira


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