Azure worlds joined on a string
Maranatha Maranatha Maranatha
Orbs of devotion spin through my fingers
Show me your criss-crossed white scars
Mine cannot be seen

Black sun of onyx
Pater Noster, Glory Be
So polished, I am all I can see
Ah! Fast shut – my vision clears
Your will be done

Cool but reassuring stone
Sliding across the Lapis
An embracing warmth
My face is gently caressed
Zephyr, beam and child’s laugh herald

The weeks of Lazuli pass
Thirty three then Calvary tree
My hand is held, my scars remain
They are the countersign
Rough edged shale

Amen

– Luke Torrisi is a retired legal practitioner and now an academic researcher and host of Carpe Diem, Sydney’s only explicitly Traditionalist and Paleoconservative radio programme broadcasting on 88.9FM, between 8:00 to 10:00pm, Mondays.

SydneyTrads is the web page of the Sydney Traditionalist Forum: an association of young professionals who form part of the Australian independent right (also known as “non-aligned right”).