Another reason is because St. Teresa Of Avilla’s Experience of a spear thrusting into her heart creating a passionate desire and love for God fits well with my poem called “Union”. Here’s her experience and my poem:
It pleased our Lord that I should see the following vision a number of times. I saw an angel near me, on the left side, in bodily form. This I am not wont to see, save very rarely… In this vision it pleased the Lord that I should see it thus. He was not tall, but short, marvelously beautiful, with a face which shone as though he were one of the highest of the angels, who seem to be all of fire: they must be those whom we call Seraphim… I saw in his hands a long golden spear, and at the point of the iron there seemed to be a little fire. This I thought that he thrust several times into my heart, and that it penetrated to my entrails. When he drew out the spear he seemed to be drawing them with it, leaving me all on fire with a wondrous love for God. The pain was so great that it caused me to utter several moans; and yet so exceeding sweet is this greatest of pains that it is impossible to desire to be rid of it, or for the soul to be content with less than God.
Union
In union with You upon the cross
As love’s arrow pierces my heart
I die to myself and suffer loss
Then given a new life and start
Buried to my old self I then rise
Vision is now clear as I can see
New self reflects in Your eyes
The person I am and want to be
Looking deeper into Your Face
Beauty becomes brighter inside
With no more wrath only grace
In union with You I now confide