Fragile Existence
Hold your breath God is nearby— a tower in the Sky with no rooftops to reach He made you for He’s A Sculptor. Contours and lines, fullness and voids, He pierced the stone one beat—one by one A touch; irreplicable If at times, in between sobs land a hand familiar to my pores so […]
Denude a Rose One Petal at a Time
Once in summer’s end a rose garden held just one rose: a bud, afraid to bloom In her anguish to be seen, petals froze— afraid of breaking Can she die before she lived? God knows well of ashes’ death how from dust life shall return At the touch of one love petals tremble and beg —This hand— to listen to the Wind; it stopped shivering, living no trace […]