“All Encompassing”

1.)

As age cleans me out

day and night tasting

sugar and icing cakes

chocolate malts and lipstick kisses

my memories mounting horses

galloping across fields and countries

I laugh gritting my teeth

wailing against walls and doors unopening…

2.)

My mother cooks in a hot kitchen

my father hammering nails of fire

wars mounting tanks and hollow ships

full of men in metal suits and swimming trunks

fishing for good against wrong

ideas changing through centuries

waking up childhood dreams

with the sun rising through a rainbow window.

3.)

We will die fat and boneless

in our conclusions

not knowing the whole truth

and the endlessness of shame

some grabbing ahold of God

as He lets us enter the Light

the stars not enough

for all the dark hearts.

4.)

But God’s heart all encompassing.