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'Le Sacre Coeur' (1982) a poem by Leon Aarts

Leon Aarts

Wednesday 8 January 2025, 11:13PM

By Leon Aarts

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Le Sacre Coeur took my Heart

I felt Christ's Eyes 

Pierce a hole in my side

 

I walked for centuries down a stone altar

Passing St Peter

Building a Symbol on rocks 

 

I stopped. To kneel, not from fatigue

I just had to praise

this Crypt

So powerfully Fantastique