Wafer and Wayfarer

I am a lonesome journeyman, a wayfarer,
although I never travel all alone,
on journeys I’m joined by a fellow-traveler,
and we’re so close, I seem almost a clone.

Each morn I drop by Mass to take a wafer,
my spiritual food with me throughout the day,
my soulful self could not feel any safer,
than with Him here Who’ll ever near me stay.

Just as I am one physical-spiritual whole,
so Christ, beneath what looks like bread and wine,
is Incarnation--body, blood and soul,
a wafer mine, whole, holy, and divine.

We’ll journey high beyond the sky, my Friend,
until our trip comes to a gripping end.

                           by Pete Voelz     10/18/14