A Poem of the Cross

This poem was written by Bryan Hart, and largely inspired by C.S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces. Though there are two obvious references to the novel (the usage of the face and the reflection in the water), the primary echo is in the word that first appears as a curse and/or burden but is later repeated as a blessing. In TWHF, it was the line “You too shall be Psyche,” whereas in my poem, it is the “Be perfect” of the Sermon on the Mount, a burdensome word regardless of how to translate the mea...