Unyielding Hearts

Inspired by Kateri Tekakwitha, the ”Mohawk Saint”
 
"What people don't realise is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross." - Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being
 
She burned her legs with coals
and God was in the sear.
The gospel boats and souls
were floating by in shoals,
to make with halves new wholes,
to change with Christian cheer.
She burned her legs with coals
and God was in the sear.
 
The bodies, wracked with fear
and never fully wrought
were changed, refreshed and clear.
In living waters bathed, brought near
to Bethlehem by sears
in which the seer appeared, and taught
the bodies wracked with fear
and never fully wrought.
 
To change is pain. On the shore
she burned herself
then saw The Cross approach, a lore
unto itself, a great machine to bore
unyielding hearts and stuff with law.
So as to change we crucify our selves.
To change is pain. On the shore
she burned her self.