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C. S. Lewis, a medieval scholar, also an incomparable lay theologian and a winsome author of Christian fiction. But he's not always recognized as an exceptional poet. Here is his poem, "Love's as warm as tears" which I offer to our beloved friends and family on this Holy Saturday:

Love’s as warm as tears,
Love is tears:
Pressure from within the brain,
Tension at the throat,
Deluge, weeks of rain,
Haystacks afloat,
Featureless seas between
Hedges, where once was green.
Love’s as fierce as fire,
Love is fire:
All sorts – Infernal heat
Clinkered with greed and pride,
Lyric desire, sharp-sweet,
Laughing, even when denied,
And that empyreal flame
Whence all loves came.
Love’s as fresh as spring,
Love is spring:
Bird-song in the air,
Cool smells in a wood,
Whispering, ‘Dare! Dare!’
To sap, to blood,
Telling ‘Ease, safety, rest,
Are good, not best.’
Love’s as hard as nails,
Love is nails:
Bunt, thick, hammered through
The medial nerves of One
Who, having made us, knew
The thing He had done,
Seeing (with all that is)
Our cross, and His.
(Collected Poems, 1994)

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