Palms open to the sky

Grow without remorse from darkness!

Reach sunlight and make a fist!

Own your living power in your   

Olive branch and dance with the family

Tree! Relax the fist and offer palms open to the sky.

Justice by example: how youth learns about age

Justice by example: how youth learns about age

We have done a lot of thinking; 

yet still need to understand.

We have done a lot of speaking; 

yet words don't heal as planned.

We have done a lot of waiting; 

yet patience teaches still

and God goes on listening; 

yet do we what we will.

In some past perch we laughed

at her raking down below as God's whispers

caused her pile of leaves to go

in merciless spirals, dancing to and fro.

But now we send our wishes: her

toil to ease at last.

And look we up above 

and hear God's knowing laugh

just when a present from a dove

lands in our coffee: splash.