Ieromonk Ghelasie Gheorghe: "LIKENESS – FRUIT of the IMAGE" (translation from Romanian by Alice Butnar)

A CERTAIN WORD of Thine,
SON of GOD,
Has Created Each of Us,
IMAGE and LIKENESS.

The WORD, Thy IMAGE,
Is Sealed onto our Created Image,
And we are all
In-between two Natures,
Between the OVERNATURE of the CREATOR IMAGE,
And the Created Nature,
Without confusion.

IMAGE and LIKENESS.

Each of us is like a TREE
With its own Nature,
Yet with its Roots fixed
In the IMAGE of GOD,
And the FRUIT of the TREE
Is this very UNION
Of IMAGE and LIKENESS.

The TREE’S Nature is drying out
Without the IMAGE of GOD,
For only together,
Without mingling,
Are they Life and FRUIT,
IMAGE and LIKENESS.

Published in the volume "Hesychasm", Platytera Publishing House, Bucharest, 2007, pp. 110-111. Translation from Romanian: Alice Butnar.

Copyright: Platytera Publishing House.

The Romanian (Original) Version can be found here.
The German Version can be found here.