Hadewijch of Antwerp (13th century)
All things
All things
are too small
to hold me,
I am so vast
In the Infinite
I reach
for the Uncreated
I have
touched it,
it undoes me
wider than wide
Everything else
is too narrow
You know this well,
you who are also there
Translated by Jane Hirshfield.
Hadewijch of Antwerp was a 13th century mystic, poet, and beguine. Nothing is known about her life except from her writings. This poem is from Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women, Edited by Jane Hirshfield (Harper, 1995).
Selected by: Amy Frykholm amy@journeywithjesus.net
