Lifting us up

Because the Holy Ghost over the bent

World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.”

              Gerard Manley Hopkins, God's Grandeur and Other Poems

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The world bent

by forces emerging from the dark place

is bent

and we

in the twisted wreckage struggle

wondering if the promise is true

of a new world coming

do we believe?

dare we believe?

Ah

for sunrise sunset

warm wind cold wind

come

and we remember

the sacred broods over all creation

unbending the bent

transforming

reconciling

lifting us up

with bright wings