Wield Love

The world is sore, hurt,
Hearts are aching, some breaking,
There is a need, more;
A light to shine against darkness,
A love to restore hope, dreams,
A requirement here, now, to meet,
To wrap snug comforting arms
Around those who weep for peace.
We each are an answer for doubt,
Fear, pain, hurt damaging, deranging
Others, liken to who we are,
We give the hands, hearts, lives,
Provide at this moment
And wield loving care, ample goodness
For the benefit of every soul
Residing in this troubled world.
We are chosen, given faith,
To stand for love, sharing blessing,
Finding delight in the company
Of those presently escaping night.

That is the last of what I have so far written. Maybe I will relax, but I do not count on it. When the words wish, they come. I cannot turn them away as if no one were home. Did I, I might later find they would stop. Yes, I have some superstitions about this gift, talent, that makes no sense being given to me. I let it have a place and time when it chooses. I think my life would be a desert without it.

Thankful

Gratefulness ensues
Because even in poverty
Of diminishment
There exists surfeit
Of blessings and no
Lack of need fulfilled.
Many gifts are present
To keep the self together,
Content with assortment,
Equal to abilities;
Examples provided
Regular exhibit.
Aware Christ inhabits
The world as assuredly
As these words proceed;
His provision is
A presence undeniable,
Praises rise to Him
Accrue, always, forever
For all is bestowed by
Bounty of His grace.

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Writing rattles in
The shuttered windows of mind,
Begging them open.

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I took a nap after these because I slept only three and a half hours overnight. Caught two hours.

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As a prompt, if you are able, create something that denotes your experience of gratitude in life. What you are celebrating now, or perhaps how the quality has changed.

Position

We enter each day
Carrying our choices over,
Willing enough to
Sacrifice an unwritten
Freedom to bonds
We continue in restriction,
But
We can choose differently,
Choose love, opportunity,
Set what saddled us
Before, aside, becoming
No beasts of burden, laden,
Instead, people learning.
Adventure
Awaits when life is
Recognized as immensity,
Blessing, valuable treasure,
Appointed for joy, seeded
With inexhaustible possibility,
Delight
In loving one another
Gifts bestowed on each of us,
Creativity which ennobles
Our immeasurable spirit,
Life beyond the norm
Turning all present into
A beauty transcendent,
Inexpressible joy enfolds;
Celebration.

Through Support

They are lit, limelight,
Center focus, open stage,
People we adore
Though rare speak we in homage,
They are loves, pleasures, and more.
When we think, purpose,
Reason to continue on
Our meaning, given,
Those relative unknowns who
Populate our lives are enough.
Sometimes memory
Must sustain us over years –
Because loss appears,
But recollection carries
Us through times of doubt and fear.
Those brave-hearted souls
Who inspire, we always have
Within us retained
To bolster our courage in
Times when giving up is easy.
Quiet warriors,
Unremarked these denizens
Of love’s sweet country,
Are life, breath, health, sustaining
Every achievement, gain, deed.

Infinity Today

Today,
This one NOW
Ours briefly – is eternal
Because every day
Is always, this one, today,
We live within it, on endlessly
Filling
Our hours
With consecrated effort,
Reaching with willing
Devotion,
Toward worthy goals, the day
Provides; no end.
Moment to moment
Change propels us still, forward,
With our escalating desire, hope,
Love,
Ever
Prior our insight
Is gained, then another.
The chase is endless
Games we play, again, we may,
Ever a winning
Always more striving, trying,
No
Disappointment
More than realizing we
Are after the same glomming.
TIME
An infinity
The minute always here now
Cannot in amber we conceal it
Past, present, altogether with duty, today.