The Jesuit Retreat Center of Los Altos

A Series of Poems from El Retiro

By: Christine Rodgers, July 2008

Decoration for Poetry
Seven

Sometimes
it is
overwhelming

to keep my
gaze upon
the altar – the

cross – the holy
dome where You
dwell next to the

burning lamp.
I lower my eyes
and find a small

square of light
resting on my
dress.  I come

back to the
beginning.  I 
come  back to the Light.