'Where in this cankered earth can peace be found?' Photo: by Andriyko Podilnyk via Unsplash

Poem by Rosemary Mathew

Early Christian Anchorite

Poem by Rosemary Mathew

by Rosemary Mathew 6th January 2023

To escape this world’s contagion, I will go
Forth to the wilderness and build me there
A shelter; or a cave find in the hills.
Thus will I loose myself from Satan’s ills.