Adoration of Holy Host

Jesus said to them: Amen, I say to you
Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man
And drink his blood, you do not have life within you

A symbol of raw divinity
A Seal of eternity's gateway
Visceral carnal focal point
Mental images of the most holy deity

The apostles quarreled at eating flesh
The early church cast as a cannibal cult
The ancients wrote of drinking God's blood
For over a thousand years all believed
That he was there

A symbol of raw divinity
A Seal of eternity's gateway

Is a symbolic view the milk of babes?
A necessary concession of an enlightened age?
Did the apostles mis-train their disciples?
Or has half the church been deceived?

If you are there shall I not bow before you?
If I chew your flesh should I not kneel before it?
Will you have compassion towards our need for carnal symbols?
Will you lead the faithful away from that which you hate?