A Poem for You

you are not finished

in the long story of your life.

you are curled like a leaf 

under the light of 

God’s regard, 

gentle eyes, 

tender gaze.

you are on a hillside in the late afternoon

all the grasses bending toward you

all the Spirit’s songs reaching for you.

look up

that sky is yours

look at the blue of it

you are loved and this great expanse

offers itself to you

your words can fill it

your singing can exult there.

even after a whole notebook

of tired days, the scattered papers of years—

you are delightful and cared for and new.

will you soften into the hillside?

will you let your bones rest? 

lay your heart down

and forget your attempts to wring

what you wanted out of these days

forget the ways you faltered

and flailed.

look at you now, 

so beautiful among the flowers.

…

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