Waves of Peace
Heavy waves, curly like the seas
During the storms,
Laughing in sapphire shadows,
Silencing the sigh, breathless
Prayers for sunlight
Glittering through the clouds,
Erasing the gales, hurricanes
Erupting like emotions
When the night pours out
Rain so furious and frantic
It ends the moments
Feeling like those days when
My hair, coiled around the brush,
Seemed like it had a life
All its own, a life of frizzy feelings
Twisting, a corkscrew
As desperate as the tempests
Who charge through the oceans
Assaulting every breaker
With ebony doom, flooding
The faith with endless swells
Torrents, dark downpours, drizzling
Showers in memories
Explosions of tangled wool,
Leaving me with one option, one
Choice that would soon
Prove to be the answer to my scandalous
Spirals.
I cut my hair, a trim
Then short, so I saw a him
Instead of the me that used to be
When my mane, like stormy seas,
Remained free to dance,
Violently rambling
on to my destiny
where my curls continued to be…
alive, like the silky threads
holding my best sweater together
What remains of me – even in these autumn years
Is the curly hair, the coiling mysteries
Beneath the hand who created me to be
ME – with a mane so wild and free
It can only be the reason that I have come to see…
Myself as the storm who trembles quietly
Beneath heavens who know me
As the one who waits patiently – for the downpour
To pulse and quiver, putting me to sleep
Beneath its gentle beat, a rhythm
For the soul to seek – in stormy weather
There is always a calming peace, serenity
Soothing away the doubts that come to those
Who don’t believe – This storm is God’s brilliance
Like the curls He chose for me,
Pouring out on His creation – a blessed stream
Hope for the grace that only He can bring!
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March 20, 2023
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