Illumination
This is as content
As I have ever been
I want for nothing
but I am concerned about everything
life in this system
is tenuous
I can have abundance today
and tomorrow be forsaken and forgotten
I have been homeless
not by my choice but that of others
whose care for me
was so remote even the daily
necessities were of little concern
regarding the state of my being
I survived that
all father husband mother forebears
I knew so little about care
love duty compassion understanding loyalty
It has taken one lifetime
to ultimately realize
how expletively little I was taught
I have examined the “finest example”
that has walked among “MEN”
and found myself “wanting”
to be like him
to love his nature ,,to copy his person
the most excellent character
Whose rightness could not be argued
whose reason could not be contended
whose compassion could not be matched
and whose understanding was
beyond what we could know
I have loved him
since the day of our introduction
I have studied his words
and his activity
and I have found “no one”
who is the like of him
I have met and studied
so many beautiful minds
yet none of them are his
none can match the sheer perfection
of your thoughts
or reach the energy of your activity
the more I look at you
I am in awe of the grace
fully reflected in a life so precious
that I cannot but proclaim
the depth of your exceeding excellence
like a bonfire set on a hill
none can avoid seeing your light
or be drawn unto it’s warmth
and the comfort of those who gather
together to embrace all your radiance
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Dec 2016 Poetry of Providence
C Michael Miller
Copyright © Poetryof Providence | Year Posted 2017
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