Sunday, November 21, 2021

Waiting In The Colonial Churchyard (poem)

Waiting In The Colonial Churchyard


Waiting in the churchyard

For something to save me

Waiting in the churchyard

Stillness comes to me


Here is the quiet steady God of Franklin and Jefferson

Persistent as the field grass

Good unbidden, though not undeserved

Mine to have, yours as well

God in the world

To be gathered like wild wheat

Nature’s honey or free grown grapes

Like the colonist’s self-reliance

I am better saved if I save myself

But isn’t that gift of salvation

Still freely provided, wildly sown for me?

To be saved from myself, by myself

God still rightly gets the kudos

God in the world

God of the world

God for the world

God in us

God of us

God for us

Stillness in the churchyard is what I see

Quiet goodness is what I feel

I am glad


June 2014   North Andover, Mass.

Copyright by Mark Bohrer

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