Email Poem

Your IP Address: 18.226.4.129

Your Email Address:

To Email Address:

Subject

Personal Note:

Poem Title:

Poem

"Fragments and crumbs of life, all the little pieces"
                                           John Ruskin, 1853

With innocent bewilderment
she surveyed her new abode
midst warm welcome of strangers
introducing themselves with sweet assurance
asserting, “We are your family --- starting today.”

Such captivating innocence
would soon grip my heart 
when she candidly confronted me
with this question I found it hard to explain to a six year old…
“Why are you now my Mommy; why so?”

Illumining her innocence with truth I prayed to impart
my soul reached out to her, cognizant of her status
as one among our orphanage residents...
I knew then --- she felt my care, and that of my fellow staff
along our reverberating, “We love you; 
yet God loves you so much to bring you here.”

Her innocence vis-à-vis home verities has been enlightened
through pieces of life realities along Scriptural precepts: 
her exposure to relationship-fragments 
as well as her tastes of togetherness-crumbs
enabling her not to be ignorant about genuine family essence…

In her Senior High graduation* testimonial speech
she jubilantly expressed:
“I thank God for granting me a family** 
through the Orphanage…”

Meeting her teary eyes
revealing her gratefulness
my vision with faith’s lens
beholds her --- as a precious blessing 
the Lord is perfecting by His workmanship.
 
*Graduation ceremony was on August 31, 2020.
**Psalm 68:6 God setteth the solitary in families…

September 1, 2020
2nd place, "All The Little Pieces" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Constance La France; judged on 9/3/2020.

CAPTCHA Preview

Type the characters you see in the picture

Required