random acts of senseless beauty

i remembered this, my favourite poem, as I was reading Bananie’s blog. It’s by R.S. Thomas.
Prayers like gravel
flung at the sky’s window,
hoping to attract the loved one’s attention.
But without visible plaits to let down
for the believer to climb up.
To what purpose open that far casement?
I would have refrained long since
but that peering once
through locked [...]