The Great Prayer

12-23 Cortes
Alfonso Cortés
Nicaraguan
1903 – 1969

 

Time is hunger, space is cold
Pray, pray, for prayer alone can quiet
The anxieties of void.

Dream is a solitary rock
Where the soul’s hawk nests:
Dream, dream, during
Ordinary life.

 

Translation by Thomas Merton

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