i do not need to defend you,

giver of life, bringing of peace,

because you can stand on your

 

own two feet, and have been

doing this far longer than i have

been in existence.

 

but i do implore you, beseech,

that you show yourself both kind

and strong to this person i love

 

who needs your light and life

and right now, thinks that you

are but a dopamine rush in

my brain and do not really

exist.

 

you have chosen to make yourself

un-seeable, unexplainable

 

and this generation who have witnessed

hypocrisy indeed in the frame of your name,

have chosen science and things proven

as their source of wisdom and truth.

 

and while i can’t blame them really,

i also cannot deny the presence of

things that cannot be seen

 

because you have made known to me

impossible peace and joy in the midst

of the worst that life has to offer,

 

you have walked beside me as i

drank from streams of life and love

and joy,

 

you have been my light in dark places

and put strength within my bones,

 

my companion constant.

you have never let me go.

 

as you have done for me and still

every day do, please shine your light

in a way that cannot be

explained or missed

 

and let this heart tattered

understand that you will do this

for them too.

 

–i have chosen to generally use my writing in a broad, less in-your-face way, but this is who i am, too, and this is what my heart needed to say today. 

 

Heather Pound 2023

Photo by David Clode on Unsplash

Photo by David Clode on Unsplash