Showing posts with label Burdens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Burdens. Show all posts

Friday, May 27, 2016

Staying Afloat



Words like whirligig,
puzzle,
firestorm,

words for the day,

sit on my couch
in cozy pajamas
sipping hot tea.

Bring pillows, they say,
and candles.
These lights hurt our eyes.

Noisy seabirds duck and dive
a cove somewhere outside.  Waves
crash the shore.

I listen hard for the music
of salt and driftwood—

for words like ebb,
buoyed,

float.
                                                    

“Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you…” Psalm 55:22.


© 2016 Jennifer Wagner