The water calmly glitters blue moonbeams,
The reddish moon approaching water seems
To be for me alone this lonely night.
’Side tropical island with snowcap bright –
Low lying clouds embrace the cleft-pocked peak.
This life has nothing more for me to seek.
Your arms and love this flimsy corpse embrace,
True peace I possess for all time and space.
I wrote this sitting from the terrace of our vacation house in Termini.
About Fr Matthew P. Schneider, LC
In 2001, I traveled from Calgary, Canada to join the Legion. Since then I’ve been all over North America and spent some time in Rome. I currently reside in Washington doing a bunch of writing and taking care of the community while studying my Licentiate in Theology (between Masters and Doctorate). I’m most well-known on Instagram and Twitter where I have about 6,500 and 40,000 followers respectively.
The water calmly glitters blue moonbeams,