October 21–27 ❘ Good Book
Good Book
You have a story in you.
Even if you never touch
pen to paper, you leave
tracks through deep drifts
to deliver needed meals,
prints on lifted hearts
and bowed heads, wrinkled spots
where tears soaked in, or spills
you tried to scribble out
but couldn’t. You need
an editor, abridger to trim
distraction and excess,
a translator to untangle mess,
a close reader to ride every wave
of your account from crest to trough,
to sink with you in grief
and swell at restoration—
someone who knows failure
can foreshadow redemption.
Someone full of hope
for how your adventure ends.
Read more of my poetry at www.facebook.com/latterdaysaintpoetry
Contact me at merrijane.rice@gmail.com
