Saint Lucy
delivered her eyes to her lover on a platter
in an act of devotion
because he had once admired them
exchanging her vision for the prophet’s.
In an act of devotion,
Saint Lucy lost her sense,
exchanging her vision for the prophet’s.
She desires inspection.
Saint Lucy lost her sense
Traded spectacles for dreams
and denies inspection.
Saint Lucy, unspoken,
for she can not weep
and loves her Lord, fiercely.
Such women are disfigured by their devotion.
Saint Lucy tore out her eyes
and raised gaping lids to God.
Laura Ehrisman
Euthychia suggested that the sums would make a good bequest, but Lucy countered,
“…whatever you give away at death for the Lord’s sake you give because
you cannot take it with you.
Give now to the true Savior,
while you are healthy,
whatever you intended to give away at your death.”
~ St. Lucy, via Wikipedia
