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Billy Ledford
February 2009 
At Santa Sabina Mother Mary is Present
Billy
(Note: I wrote this poem on the fourth day of the 10-day silent meditation retreat I attended with Richard Miller in San Rafael, CA at the Santa Sabina Retreat Center. The quote from Our Lady of Medjugorje was from that day's meditation in the book Mary's Vineyard by Andrew Harvey. I read the quote after having written the poem. The picture attached to this entry shows the altar that the book was sitting on before the statue of Mary in the chapel.)
May 26 -- Our Lady, Medjugorje 1986
"If you abandon yourselves to me, you will not even feel the passage from this life to the next. You will begin to live the life of heaven on earth."
At Santa Sabina, Mother Mary is present.
I pray to her,
'Hail Mary, full of grace,
the Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou among women
and blessed is the fruit of they womb,
Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners, now
and at the hour of our death.
Amen'
Blessed is the fruit of thy womb.
Pray for us sinners, now
and at the hour of our death.
The fruit of thy womb...
The hour of our death...
Womb...
Death...
Who are you giving birth to?
Who is dying?
This birth is like a death.
Who knows who this new-born
will grow up to be?
All I know now is the pain
of this birth --
this birth that is also a death.
No one said it would be easy.
There is no anesthetic
to ease the pain.
Does it hurt you, Mother,
as much as it hurts me?
This labour is long and hard.
Who knows when it will end, if ever?
Kill me already! Put me out of my misery.
I am ready to be born.
At Santa Sabina, Mother Mary is present.
I pray to her,
'Blessed is the fruit of thy tomb.
Pray for us sinners, now
and at the hour of our birth.'
The fruit of thy tomb...
The hour of our birth...
Tomb...
Birth...
Who is dying?
Who is being born?
This death is like a birth...
"If you abandon yourselves to me, you will not even feel the passage from this life to the next. You will begin to live the life of heaven on earth."
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