When you experience profound holiness

When you witness a Divine light on a human face

When your soul is kindled with sacred passion

When you are overcome by yearning

Desperately homesick

For a place you know exists

But can’t remember.

When you taste the beyond

Glimpse a truer dimension –

There is no going back.

And by necessity

You are stuck between two worlds

Trapped in physicality –

Sometimes gasping for pure air

Sometimes sinking comfortably into this existence.

And because you are both body and soul

Heeding the voice of only one

Will never work

And so you are stretched taut between the holy and mundane

The spiritual and profane

Wondering when you’ll snap

From the pressure.