Poem for the Sunday Before Lent

Day Dream
One day people will touch and talk perhaps easily,
And loving be natural as breathing and warm as sunlight,
And people will untie themselves, as string is unknotted,
Unfold and yawn and stretch and spread their fingers,
Unfurl, uncurl like seaweed returned to the sea,
And work will be simple and swift
as a seagull flying,
And play will be casual and quiet
as a seagull settling,
And the clocks will stop, and no one will wonder
or care or notice,
And people will smile without reason,
Even in winter, even in the rain.

A.S.J. Tessimond (1902 – 1962)

The Gospel reading today is Mark’s account of the transfiguration. It’s also St
Valentine’s Day. Here’s a poem of a world transfigured; a poem for lovers, for
dreamers, for all of us in lockdown.

On the mountain top the disciples glimpsed the glory of Jesus, the glory as of the
Father’s only Son full of grace and truth. Not a day dream. This is the reality of the
transforming work of God’s love in action!! We have reason to smile, even in
winter. Love has come in Jesus – all day, every day, everywhere. We don’t need
to keep our distance from him. In fact the closer we keep to him the more likely
we are to catch that love and pass it on.

Tina Lamb