A Mystical Astonishment Poem by MBJ Pancras

To My Loving Daughter Suzanna Christy

I opened the book:

she sails before my eyes,
I swim back of her,
She leads me unto a place
Where none hath reached yet.
We step in and are led deep in.
Neither gold nor silver was in;
Yet the world within shines.
I'm at amazement at this mystical sheen.
I look at her smile decked with grace.
Her smile unravels the mystery of the brilliance.
It's the Gift of God delivered unto me,
I run at once to call my other half to witness it.
So I try to close the book;
Yet the book is never to be closed.
I'm broght to senses that my other half is beside me.
We witness together the mystical brilliance,
And the innocent smile dances before ouw inward eye.
We forget our world and she hath made a new world for us.
Now we three dwell in the new world,
And God in Three is always at our side.
It 's a mystical astonishment unto those
who keep their inward eye wide open.