A Welcoming Hymn Poem by Kurt Philip Behm

The deeper you care
the more remote you become

What the present reveals
no clock can outrun

The past and the future
for others to know

This journey one-way
where only you'll go

Those voices who call
pull you deeper within

Not lost but alone
taking flight back to Him

As Jesus and Mohammed
and Crazy Horse knew

The path to true knowledge
doubt ridden and strewn

With the old voices silenced
new voices begin

As your eyes slowly close
—to their welcoming hymn

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August,2018)