“Joy Within”

“Eternity and Joy had not disappeared but only retreated into deep sanctuary. Like precious holy texts which, in an act of sacrilege (for he had gathered together the sacred instruments and scriptures), he had carried deep into the bowels of his being, into caves, down precipitous flights of stairs, along tortuous and constricted pathways, behind boulder-protected chambers, across booby-trapped rooms, through claustrophobic crawl spaces, within chained vestibules, the timeless and infinite Bliss had been secreted where no one but him would ever find It. In its deep and lonely seclusion it could be fondled and dandled and cooed over as a love-drunk mother dotes on her first child.”