P. Jiří Jan Vícha, OFMCap.
Three Kings
Therefore
… we are looking for that child
A land without a child is desolate
… we are looking for the stable
not the chambers of palaces
with scaly gold
not the bedrooms
with the scents of the Orient
(Wandering within them
and crying
Herod Sorrow)
… we are looking for the shepherds
let them tell us
how to reach
the Fire
Our warmth is cooling
cold hands offered
lifeless kisses
extinguished hearths of hearts
with a bit of incense smoke
frosted by darkness
… we are looking for that Mother
that Mother with the Child
She sang to her son, the Mother
and the song
smelled bitter
with myrrh
From the collection "Landscape of Grace",
to be published by the Carmelite Publishing House in May 1994
