Hieromonk Ghelasie: "Psalm for the LOVE of GOD" (Translation: Alice Butnar)

GOD I would like to show
My LOVE for YOU
Yet everything breaks
In PROSTRATION!

All things can be said,
Only LOVE must be SHUT UP,
LOVE must be HIDDEN,
So nobody knows of it,
LOVE – THE MYSTERY PROSTERNATION
LOVE – THE DIVINE ICON.

The SINGING OF LOVE
Is the only SONG,
LOVE that you CALL FOR,
LOVE that you WAIT FOR,
LOVE that you cannot forget,
LOVE that cannot die,
LOVE that cannot be killed,
LOVE that WEEPS in itself,
LOVE, THE CROSS OF ETERNITY!

(published in the volume "Avva Ghelasie, Cuvântătorul de Dumnezeu" ("Abba Ghelasie, the Theologian"), Platytera Publishing House, Bucharest, 2005, p. 19. Translation from Romanian: Alice Butnar.

Copyright: Platytera Publishing House.

The Romanian (Original) Version can be found here.

The German Version can be found here.