Remembering

Oh, how I can count on You.

            You are the light

that breaks the darkness,

and the darkness that woos me into rest.

            Your love is the only constant

on which I can rely.

            I hear you've been doing this

for millennia. So how is it that

            I am able to forget You

                        for even a moment,

when each day all I need

is given me as if I were

the most celebrated queen?

           

Thank you, my love,

            for each heartbeat,

                        the air that gives this body life,

                                    the sun that grows us all,

                                                and water to quench our thirst.

            Most of all, thank You

for Love from which Life comes.

            I am because You are.



Carol Barrow
Feb, 2017