shimmer of light
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Prayer written for 9/11 at West Hill UnitedTRANSCRIPT
A blue sky,the shimmer
of light against distant
windows,
and air crisp and clean,in the morning’s freshness-we awake to the infinite beauty of another day.
Yet wrapped within its unlived moments of delight, laughter, productivity, blisslay this -the ragged, sharp, destructive shrapnelof another’s broken dream.
The window’s smooth, consistent paneserupt like tearsand shards of light –falling,
falling,falling –
carve their courses on the hearts of lovers, children, parents, friends, on the hearts of a nation, the hearts of a world.
May we learn to live boldly in the love that is fear’s constant target –its only sure and eternal defeat.
May we rise against a blue sky,the shimmer of light against distant windows,
Andair, crisp and
clean,in this
morning’s freshness.
and be not afraid.