Poetry of Karol Wojtyla - Saint John Paul II. This poem is from The Church, written at the Basilica of Saint Peter, Autumn 1962, when Wojtyla would have been in Rome for the beginning of Vatican II. Marble floor Our feet meet the earth in this place; there are so many walls, so many colonnades, yet we are not lost. If we find meaning and oneness, it is the floor that guides us. It joins the spaces of this great edifice, and joins the spaces within us, who walk aware of our weakness and defeat. Peter, you are the floor, that others may walk over you (not knowing where they go). You guide their steps so that spaces can be one in their eyes, and from them thought is born. You want to serve their feet that pass as rock serves the hooves of sheep. The rock is a gigantic temple floor, the cross a pasture
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