Archives: Beauty

Sun Rise

I waited for you today.
Many days I ignore you
Unaware of your rhythm
Except to complain of your excess
Heat that burns my comfort
And drives me indoors.

But not today, I waited.
Standing in the chill
Moving for a better glimpse
I willed the churning earth
To spin toward you, impatient
That you would fit into my sense of time.

Every day I wait.
I just don’t know it when
I lay my life out by
Calendar and clock that tell me
How to live this journey in
Broken, segregated, hurried chunks.

Hurried by my devices, I wait.
I follow them as they mark
The long wait for eternity.
Enterprise and noise fill the mind
And senses forget where the life is found
The Source of all real living.

But today I know why
I wait behind the burgundy clouds
Straining to glimpse the glory untouchable
That you reflect in your brilliance
Gift essential to all of life
Pointing to the greater Majesty.

Fire and Foam

I saw the waves on fire today.
White hot flashes of glory.

Ocean blue, first swelling, now foaming.
Always in a tug-of-war between moon and shores.
Who can measure you? Who can tame you?
Who can know your creatures and your depths?

Morning sun, light untouchable.
Light to walk by, light to see, light to form our food.
Without you, there’d be no color.
Sometimes you burn the living down to a shrivel.

Two mysteries dance together,
And I am undone.
A glimpse into the greater, truer reality.
A peek at holiness.

I want to see.