Proximity To Mary, Proximity To God [Ode To Mary]

T

he proximity to the unreachable depth—

How to capture this paradox in a breath.

The unconceivable in thought, impregnable;

Yet conceivable in body, pregnable.

Who alone could give birth to another?

The One who authored life yonder;

To human intellect, unfathomable

To womb humble stable, oh so viable.

Strip a hapless babe of its dear mother

You cut off the web-of-life’s sustainer.

Robbed, bled dry, dethroned as mother,

Child stripped, ripped, depth of its fiber.

Never could anyone strip Jesus of Mary

Lest we emasculate God of humanity.

So cultivate proximity to the Mother;

First and last rungs on Jacob’s ladder.

The One Being reveals through human womb

And unveils through life's hallowed tomb.

Blessed the womb that revealed and carried you;

The breasts that nursed and cuddled you.

Fr JM Manzano SJ