Ritual

Why ritual? 
May I not receive
Christ without burial
By water? 
If I remember 
That He bled, 
If I believe, 
What need for 
Sacramental bread? 

Only this I know: All cries out 
For form — 
No impulse 
Can rest 
Until somehow 
It is manifest. 
Even my spirit, 
Housed in heaven,
Was not content 
Until it won 
Embodiment.