renewal

“Renewal”

Gretchen M. Meyer

 

I feel a strange renewal of the mind

Into which assurance softly sings

A subtle shifting of my point of view

Which changes thoughts of me to thoughts of you.

 

There is a slow enlargement of the heart

A warming of the icy plains inside

As glaciers melt and water growing gardens

In which there now bud blooms of love and life.

 

Then comes a sudden rebirth of the soul

Which burns all ancient bitterness away

Cleansing fires engulf my petty spite

As ashes wash away in waves of grace.

 

So as stagnant emotions slowly leave

It is amazing how much more there is of me.