Santa Teresa de Avila
Found some Carmelites plotting to kill her
But she avoided the thugs
And by using strong drugs
Allowed God's infinite grace to fulfill her

Pobre San Juan de la Cruz
Never lived to be long in the tooth
But on his Dark Night
He bathed in the light
of his lover's ineffable Truth

(Intimations of his immortality
Must not slide into facile banality
And it has to be said
That his being dead
Had a very strong sense of finality)

Initially prepared to mull
Over teachings by Raimundo Lull
Sufis found in the end
It false to pretend
They were anything other than dull.