Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Evasive Joy and Quiet Nights and what I think when I'm alone.

In the darkness tonight, driving under the stars
I'm lost staring up at Jupiter's beam
thinking about the things we lose along the way--
the poetry and songs from the beauty we drink
and how we search with open hearts
to find those things
    like one coin of ten or a pearl lost and found
And the way we rejoice
when they find us again
in peculiar places--the hard soil of years of work
or the painful dark nights when we first called it missing
they will come back, unexpected
like that planet's steady glow
 like a fire on the hill
and we will sing about the brokenness
but find ourselves whole.

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