Author: Dayna E. Mazzuca

a night out under the stars, shivering

for soul care              suffering

a form of prayer

(heard a far way off)

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come boldly, with open arms and an open mind

and an open heart

I know:           you can’t.

not yet, not now,

not again.

I know.

but come boldly—

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we think we’re in the DMZ; that there is time to decide,

but really, there is nowhere unknown

as for or against

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when Abraham needed a sacrifice

and took his son up the mountain;

he found        caught in the bushes

a ram              the great I Am

caught in the bushes, held fast

a sacrifice, substitute

for a boy, a man

I Am

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each of us have our own way marked out,

not to go our own way, as if it wasn’t marked out,

but to find the way              marked out               for us

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hold onto hope (in something more than slogans,

even slogans about hope)

This poem appears in my book peace: poems for the spiritual journey – Available on Amazon

although… if we continue to eat like kings

I fear we might forget         displace

the stories once told to supplement

those nights of hunger

This poem appears in my book peace: poems for the spiritual journey – Available on Amazon