Amazing Grace
It has been too long
Since your voice was heard
Tenseness asks
To let go again
How Sweet the sound
Wild noise surrounds our
Failure to listen
Your whisper
Contained to silence
That saved a wretch
By choice we decide
To see or not see
Waiting for
What’s here all along
Like me
Understanding your presence
Embodies peaceful
Abundance
Even in chaos
I once was lost
Despair covets the
Heart of our matter
Forgetting
How far we have come.
But now am found
Remembering soon
Brings understanding
I seek you
Even in darkness
Was blind
Recognition failed
As clouds covered help’s
Compassion
Where love awaits us
But now I see
Eyes open or closed
Your softness welcomes
Light once more
A welcome presence
Amazing Grace once more
Inspired by a conversation with a friend in August that brought GRACE to mind on my walk, and a stanza of the hymn ‘Amazing Grace’ by John Newton, December 1772
No matter what challenges you are enduring, may you always know that GRACE is here with you.
Poetry and Photography by Susan LePlae Miller
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