Wednesday, June 23, 2010

hard

    to embrace gracious
        freedom
            so eagerly,
        that i take on every
                menial task
            on behalf of others;

    to avoid the aisles
     stocked with temptation's
            empty calories,
        but shop in the produce
                section of the kingdom,
            filling my cart
            with all sorts of luscious
                         goodies,
        giving them away
        as i walk down the
                street;

    to follow you
    down paths overgrown
        with aching loneliness,
            potholed with grief,
                worn smooth where
                those who turned back
                    walked;

you have asked
a hard thing, 
    yet i see your footprints
        stretching out before me,
     and take the first (of what
        will surely be many
                 faltering)
steps.

(c) 2010 Thom M. Shuman

No comments: