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Eye contact can steer, guide  and sustain

In hours and in moments critical,

Give comfort and alleviate the pain

When all protective walls and ramparts fall.



This contact with  His mother Christ had too,

When  He climbed up the way to Calvary,

The mother‘s glance said: “Son I am with you!”

Take part and share your pain and agony.



He met her eyes three times as He walked  by,

Her glance sustained Him even while He fell,

And even on the cross when death drew nigh.

“I am with you against the force of hell!"







Her eye-contact gave strength - Mel Gibson showed

In “Passion of the Christ" effectively,

When Jesus almost broke beneath His load,

Then found the strength to climb up Calvary.



Eye contact  persuades - not darkly shades-,

This mirror of the soul does clearly show,

When love is kindled, radiates, or fades,

Or when a soul has fallen very low.



It is this mirror of the soul - the eyes,

That bare the depth of hate or sympathy,

Show  doubts, attraction  trust, or blatant lies,

And show deception or sincerity.



Eye contact makes clear the hue

And worth of colors suddenly displayed,

Explains when a deserved reproach is due,

When ugly words bring friendship's bloom to fade.



Eye contact,- not words that howl or scream,

Can give the needed comfort instantly,

And has the might and power to redeem,

When pointless messages turn fallacy.



Eye contact warns the  too confident

And inconsiderate speaker to abstain

From speech,  and for God’s mercy be gallant

And keep his peace much rather than cause pain.



Eye contact told Mary in her pain,

That it would be her task to intercede,

To be the faithful mother of all men,

And nourish with her love the sprouting seed.



Oh powerful eye contact with so much might,

Contact that soothes and keeps from despair

Assures the faltering things will work out alright,

And that so sweet it is His yoke to bear.



Eye contact consoles the one that fell:

"Your sacrifice redeems, now comrade rest!

The heavens open wide for you  and tell

"You are a hero and forever  blessed!"







Eye contact, more than the words told John,

When he and Blessed  Mother weeping stood,

"Behold you mother son" and "Woman see your son"

The Savior uttered dying on the rood.



Since then she is the mother of us all

To turn in trial and adversity,

This  sorrowing Mother  hears her children’s call,

Praise praise  this mother of benignity!.



Feast of our Lady of Sorrows

Sept. 17th



© Elizabeth Dandy