tag:dreamwidth.org,2013-05-12:2014669 (are we there yet?) kokopelle 2014-12-25T17:14:28Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2013-05-12:2014669:480513 2014-12-25T14:17:30Z 2014-12-25T17:14:28Z contemplative public 0 An amazing friend posted a yearly introspective for 2014. I found it very moving and asked if I could turn their insightful words into a poem. The answer was yes, and the result is the poem “Pieces of Life”. <br /><br /><br />Pieces of Life<br />Poem for Day 93 – 20141225<br /><br />My life fell to pieces,<br />so I picked them up.<br />I turned each one over again<br />and looked them in the face.<br />I befriended them one by one,<br />even the frightening ones.<br />They were met with love,<br />touched with understanding,<br />and through the pain came beauty<br />as I built up myself anew.<br /><br />The pieces were linked by faith,<br />this too was renewed within.<br />I had passed on my cross for life,<br />placed in the tomb for death,<br />only to be reborn in faith<br />that life could begin again.<br />My old faith had fallen apart,<br />a new faith took its place.<br />The dying was the hardest,<br />but the rebirth was where I found myself.<br /><br />In the end I learned life's constant:<br />to surrender my life to my God.<br />My problems, my worries,<br />my concerns, and my anxieties<br />were taken up by with God's grace.<br />In return I found self love,<br />more precious than anything else.<br />From the pieces I found myself,<br />sorted from the unnecessary given up,<br />and I loved life as I loved myself.<br /><br />© 2014. Sean Green. All Rights Reserved.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=kokopelle&ditemid=480513" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments