"Widening the Door"

Since Sister Carol Bialock's Poems are to be published next month, I am whetting appetites by sharing a few, with her permission. This one is called "Widening the Door":

Does the heart have a narrow door"

Will it allow in just one more

Of every beast and flower and bird

And every song it has ever heard?

Just one more child, just one more flower,

One more relinquishing of power

To that sane and sacred foolishness

Of living by inclusiveness?

Does the heart have a supple, elastic latch

That makes it easy to dispatch

All pettiness and bigotry

And open it to what makes free?

Is the heart a huge and lovely land?

Does it know the meaning of "Expand

And make your borders bright

And luminous with love's own light"?

Yet who can heal all the wounds and hate

Make my heart open, free and great."