Hope

It floated in the spring sun,

a fragment of earth

Free

for a moment

to dance in the light

A bit of dust

nothing more

Yet captured in its baseness

was the light

and so it sparkled

and spun

crazily in the light breeze

a jubilant child

afire with joy

swirling, swirling, whirled by the wind of life.

Soon

lifted up it flew

to regions far beyond my sight

a seraph king

a sparkling messenger of hope

From dust to dust

the preachers say,

from dust we come

to dust we go

a piece of earth and nothing more

and yet those moments come

when love flames out

and scatters light

and light

is captured

if only for a moment

 

And for a moment

we are free

to dance in the breeze

and with exuberance

to catch the joy as it flies

(with apologies to William Blake)

 

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When we turn inside

to become intimate with God

and with our true self

joy happens :)