"Listening"
I buried my fists into my pockets and looked up to the sky
As though no answer would ever come
As though something flying though the air would never land
The dormant world lay waiting for a signal
A sign a reason to begin the world lay still under the wide open sky
listening for eternity to break free through the abyss of sound
listening for some angel trumpet to harken from the horiaon
for a drum beating in the deep or a horror to cry out in the night
listening for an answer in the night poised like a hair trigger
listening like the pricked back ears of a snowshoe hair
I lay back into autumn leaves and opened my heart and listened
just like everything else I jusr stilled my mind and listened
then we were all listening together like one heart and one mind
In Jesus' Name,
Amen