The Art of Life

Orchestral holy, salvific notes of daily tome:

Character shaped in resplendent recitation,

Keynotes drifting to inspired home.

Beauty cascades as paint-clad margins,

Life's subtleties animated as ethereal dome.

A day well-lived, as dried pigment hardens,

When divine transcendence is truly known.

A soul shone through as palatial marble,

Cracked and caved by mortification wrought.

Upon a pedestal, elevated unto glory:

Divine goodness embodied sans self-same rot.

Leased visage of Heaven, offered as basilica for;

Eases and chartered glass, purified--evermore.

Life descends as poetic reflection:

Gratitude, not possession, of what is Yours.