Will I Still Wear My Scars?

When this cold, broken world is healed of its sins, and flooded with light and the warmth of your grace, When all is reborn and remade for forever, and time's paralyzing fear is erased from reality, When you raise my humble body for an endless celebration - a dance, a song, a heart-bursting Hosanna - When you make all things right ... Will I still wear my scars? My scalded flesh ... it is all I have known. Shall it be refashioned into flawless skin? What age will I be? How skinny? How fat? I have been many things, and there is more I could be ... Forgive my curiosity, for I know it matters little. Better to focus on shepherding the fragile soul you gave me. I leave my future body to your hands. It, as all else, is your gift to give. 4 February 2024