How Can This Be

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Painting by Saatchi


Her happiness and joy are not contained.
     Held frozen with delight of what she sees,
her shaking hands now hide her smiling face
     except for twinkling eyes that say it all.

"How can this be?" shows clearly in her eyes.
     So many years have passed, yet he is here.
She lived her life with emptiness that led
     to days of searching, always unfulfilled.

And here before her, true as true can be,
     that part of her she never came to know;
that mystery that robbed her life's full joy,
     amazingly appears before her eyes.

Her father who she searched for all her life
     now stands in front of her, alive and well.


Sandra M. Haight

~2nd Place~
Contest: Poems That Paint A Picture
Sponsor: Silent One
Unrhymed Sonnet
Judged: 09/13/2017

Saatchi named this painting, "Bliss." I also interpreted surprise and joy on her face before I saw the title.

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