I seek your attention as I sit at your feet
Like a puppy awaiting a treat.
I close my eyes as you stroke my hair;
A gentle touch to show you care.
You're seated by the phone on the wall.
From your perspective I must look small.
I press my head against your knee
And let your love wash over me.
I'd lost my way and you just knew
That day my soul reached out to you.
You took my hand and healed my soul,
Saved my life and made me whole.
Now I'm safe within your space
And, when I look upon your face,
I see a presence that has me awed:
Angel of Mary, Mother of God.
Innocently shocked, they surveyed their new abode
midst warm welcome of strangers introducing themselves
sweetly assuring, “We are your family --- starting today.”
Such captivating look would soon grip my heart
when they candidly confronted me with this question I found it hard to explain
to kids, aged six and four… “Why are you now our Mommy?
With truth I prayed to impart, my soul reached out to them
cognizant of their status as siblings among our orphanage residents...
I let them feel my care, and that of my fellow staff along our reverberating: “We love you; yet God loves you so much to bring you here.”
Their understanding vis-à-vis home verities has been enlightened
through bits of life realities along Scriptural precepts:
their exposure to joyous relationships as well as delight for togetherness
bonded with the Lord’s compassion beyond blood and gene’s kinship…
Such enabled them not to be ignorant about family* essence.
*Psalm 68:6 God setteth the solitary in families…
October 2, 2020
3rd place, "The Unexplained" Contest
Sponsored by Carolyn Devonshire; judged on 10/2/2020.
Catapulted through
Time my soul reached out to seas
Of black in the void.
The journey long though,
I made it in seconds and
Then began to swim
Few understand it
The quest of a soul seeking
Its enlightenment.
On I continued
And in the great library
I found my purpose.
The light within me
Glowed in cerulean blue
I had touched Gods mind.
No one understands
Enlightenment until they,
Arrive at its shores.
I once dreamed a dream, you returned to me
Our strength re-united with visions I see
In the depth of night, my mind took me there
A place I needed to be, tears dried with your care
We were a team again, ready to take on the world
Our smiles lifted in happy laughter that swirled
Through a night, where my soul reached out to you
In the light of a dream it passed darkness through
I woke embraced by our unity, through realms of time
Confirmed our connection is never broken by crime
Heidi Sands
2/16/19
Placed 3rd in the I dreamed a dream contest. Sponsor: Silent One
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