With Roses for All

Do you have time to read poetry? People have responded to this question in a variety of ways. I don t have time to wash my clothes. I don t have time to cut the lawn. I don t have time to go for a Sunday drive in the country. I don t have time to pray. I don t have time for play. I don t have time just to waste with those I love. Poetry is absorbing. Poetry is engaging. Poetry reaches into the facility of play. Poetry calls out to human freedom by speaking to heart and mind together at the same moment unraveling human nature before one has the time to stop its invasion. What good could come from that? The gift of realizing that one is made for more than work. The gift of experiencing one s self as interacting with the world of beauty. The gift of being restored to the person you always knew you were. Robert Fabing, S.J.