Love louder than Thunder

When psalms surprise me with their music

And antiphons turn to rum

The Spirit sings;

the bottom drops out of my soul.

And from the center of my cellar,

Love,

louder than thunder

Opens a heaven of naked air.

New eyes awaken.

I send Love's name into the world with wings

And songs grow up around me like a jungle.

Choirs of all creatures sing the tunes

Your Spirit played in Eden.

Thomas Merton. [Selection from] "Psalm" in The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton. New York: New Directions Publishing Co., 1977: 220-221.