Communion Song for Hildegard of Bingen

COMMUNION SONG
FOR HILDEGARD OF BINGEN

We are sunrise, sunset colors
from skin
shedding into a million particles.

We are tides
touched by the moon.

We are planets
weaving a webbed path called atoms.

We are fire and ice
our passion jungle
our indifference arctic.

We are water
flowing with our memories.

We are birds
longing for the radiant air.

We are plants
breathing, opening to light.

We are rock
until we crumble into dust.

We are life
if we but knew.

-- Sr. Lou Ella Hickman
   Corpus Christi, Texas

Published in National Catholic Reporter, December 14, 2007