teresa

A little privacy?
I cannot concentrate
on God with you watching

me. And obviously
I will write down later
all the interesting

details so young ladies
who wish to imitate
my example and see
the Lord God face-to-face
may do so properly

by work and poverty
obediance patience
and a well-becoming

unselfish chastity.
O this? You see I take
not one single earthly

pleasure from this, only
I enjoy the greatest
religious ecstacy,
for which you must behave
better than you believe