This is probably three or four poems – all related to my own understanding of my life purpose. So, consider these loose thoughts… I’m posting as is for now. :) D.


Long Road to a Lonely Call

Cold
winds
swept the driving snow in wide circles
that winter

            my small voice drifted through shadowed valley,
            haven for forlorn souls, invisible and

forgotten,
cast out from saintly elect,
so loved and
warm.

            Snow-blind, I wandered
            through vacant fields of white, hearing
            only echoes of the life I’d known. Pain pulsed
            beneath a frozen landscape filled
            with souls in agony.


Alone
among them
I cried because I was
one of them.

            Then Creator called me back, blindfolded and
            crippled, out of dark into light, into world that

wanted none of me,
to show love is true st when
heart finds beauty in all
humanity. 

            I stumbled, spun around, lost my way.
            Some laughed. Some watched in silence.
            But a very few who dared to love
            in spite of darkness and pain
            that had blighted me.


Ice
thawed and
spring flowers bloomed in far meadow
that spring

            I first understood I was neither
            the luminescent pearl nor its oyster home,

but grainy sand,
irritating, an annoyance to
world I’m here
to serve.

            Scattered to the winds,
            I had thought God done with me.
            Tossed out into a lonely sea, I’d presumed
            He had no use for me. But
            seasons change.
           

Change
comes slowly,
reveals itself in infinitesimal refinements
over time.

            An ocean of truth changed love’s tide in me
            as, reluctantly, I followed sandy footprints

into dark
to be carried back to light. And so, Spirit
moves me ever on, leading where I’m
needed most.