Thursday, January 10, 2019

hand-holding


“I held out my hands all day
         long
   to a rebellious people,
who walk in a way that is
         not good,
   following their own
         devices.”  Isaiah 65:2

since we know better,
than you ever will,
we continually slap
your hands away until,
at the very end of the path
that leads to nothingness,
we reach out and grab
tight to the only thing
that can keep us from
stepping into the abyss,
your heart held out to us,
as it always has been.

© 2019 Thom M. Shuman

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