It was
when I was
dust
that
I was
given the
embrace of life,
so I cry
into the wind,
“I can
scarcely
wait
to be
dust again.”
Faith, Health, and Other Musings
May our minds flourish with creation, and may our hands never deny its expression.
It was
when I was
dust
that
I was
given the
embrace of life,
so I cry
into the wind,
“I can
scarcely
wait
to be
dust again.”
Your fingers
are flowing heat,
and I smile
as I wince,
when
the flames
rise
to lick
the back
of my neck
It is
chronically
exhausting
to care
for causes
and to
carry the burdens
of other hearts,
but it isn’t
nearly
as dangerous
as not.
In the
tedium of living,
poetry is
a fleeting spark —
a moment of
raw intensity.
You captained
the most successful
rescue mission
this world
has ever seen,
leaving
no part
of me
unsaved.
But how
many times
will we
create people
in a moment
of love
to live
in a world
of hate?
I’m not
blinded
by love;
every single
one of my
senses
is gone.
You are
the only one
to love me
hard enough
to stir the dust
from my heart,
to shake
the shadows
from its corners.
The thing
about being
tested
by fire
is that
you walk out
with ashes
at your feet
and flames
at your fingertips
It is when
I am
burdened by work
and
buried by projects
that I am
— very reluctantly —
at my
best.