My favorite religious poem, for insmallpackages
Wish: Share your favourite verse/song/painting/... with a religious theme.
I am not very religious myself, but this poem struck me so hard when I read it that, several months later, it popped into my head out of the blue and sent me on a search that ended in the next state. So definitely worth it for such a beautiful poem. It is translated from Hebrew, so I'm sure it loses something, but I hope you love it anyway as much as I do :)
Untitled poem by Judah Halevi
With all my heart-O Truth-and all my might
I love You, with my limbs and with my mind
Your name is with me: Can I walk alone?
With it for lover, how can I be lorn?
With it for lamp, how can my light go dim?
How can I slip with it the stick
By which I stand?
They mock who do not understand: The shame
I bear because I bear Your name is pride to me.
Source of my life, I bless You while I live;
My Song, I sing to You while yet I breathe.