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Invisible Miracle
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To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
Francois Mauriac
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Last Night
Last night you cradled me
in your arms, held me close,
your hand holding my hand
with such warmth
You looked deeply into my eyes
You smiled with
such tenderness, such reassurance
that all tension within me
drained away.
As morning aproached,
a smile played on my lips,
eyes still mostly closed
by sleep
yet feeling warmed by love
imbued with promise,
I awoke to find myself alone.
(original words)
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Last Night
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I Never Thought
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I never thought
I would be
the one
who would remain.
Me with my frailty,
You with your strength.
Now I stand alone
Needing to go on
with this life
by myself.
Needing to face
All of
life's trials
by myself
Uncertain
Uncomfortable
Uneasy about
the walk down
the path
of the future
Sustained only
by the fragments
of confidence
you gave me
so long ago.
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from time to time
I look for you
every now and then
Yes, there is still
a tiny vestige
of hope,
Defying
reality
Could that be you
at the door?
down the hall?
in the next room?
My whole
self
still aches for you
cries for you
longs for you
And all that
I have left
to satisfy me
are silence and
my visions
without
your substance.
(Original words)
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From Time to Time
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Love is like a Mighty Spring
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There
is
a love
like a
small
lamp
which
goes out
when
the oil
is
consumed,
or like a
stream
which
dries up
when it
doesn't
rain
But there is a love
that is like a
mighty spring
gushing out
of
the earth;
it keeps
flowing
forever
and is
inexhaustible.
Isaac of Nineveh
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Someday
After we have mastered
The winds, the waves,
The tides and gravity,
We shall harness the
energies of love
Then
for the second time
in the history of the world
Man will have discovered
Fire
Teilhard de Chardin
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Fire!
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Ulysses With Skyscape
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Come, my friends,
'tis not too late to seek
A newer world.
Push off and sitting well in order
Smite the sounding
furrows;
For my purpose holds
to sail beyond the sunset
and the baths
of all the western stars
until I die
It may be that the gulfs
will wash us down;
It may be we shall
touch the happy
isles,
and see the great Achilles,
whom we knew.
Though much is taken,
much abides and though
We are not now the strength
which in old days
moved earth and heaven
that which we are we are
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
made weak by time and fate,
But strong in will
to strive, to
seek, to find,
and not to yield.
from Ulysses by Alfred
Lord Tennyson
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See!
I will not forget you.....
I have engraved you
on the palms
of my hands
Isaiah 49:15
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See! I will not forget you
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Rabbi Alexandrai's Prayer
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Rabbi Alexandrai's Prayer
May it be your will, O our God,
that we be allowed to stand
in places of astonishing light
and not in dark places
And may our hearts know no pain
And may our vision not be so clouded
That we would not see
All the blessings of Life
That you have given us.
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Personal Woman of Valor
I am a woman of valor
My arms are new with strength,
My hands will plant vineyards.
With dignity will I tend them,
With laughter and with wisdom
Will I make them grow.
And I will seek goodness
All the days of my life.
adapted from Proverbs 31
by Faith Rogow
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Personal Woman of Valor
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