Unshakeable Love

 I have had variations of the virus off and on for slightly over two years. As a result, my mood elevator is sometimes in the sub-basement. While I do not usually feel sorry for myself, I dislike the inability to be my normal gung-ho-driven personality.

This connecting poem series addresses the dark side of lock-in, quietude, solitude, and, yes, self-pity.

WAITING

Wasting time alone with few tasks

Allowed to be done as you are precious

Isolated for safety, seen as delicate, locked-in

Time, a forever being, is not allowed

Interaction, too sick, too different to fit into man's but

Not nature' scheme of ordinary sameness, except

Giving off not brown, but see in the dark, blue eyes.

BLUE EYES

By birth, you were different, precious,

Leading, always by example

Unless told no, this is not your place

Everyone can have it, but you are, by birth, not entitled.

Else you stray and complain;

Yielding instead to strength.

Experiencing a touch -

Stones of Unconditional love... but wishes...

WISHES

Wise one never for others

Instances than their own

Saving time by what needs doing

Harboring only thankfulness

Enjoying what God gives, understanding

Serving bestows enjoyment and happiness in all.

HAPPINESS IN ALL

Heaven does deposit gifts upon

All who are open to receive

Putting them to work in the

Purpose He calls us

Instinctively we know

Needing some or little direction

Enjoyment flows in doing when

Serving with the pleasure of talent

Seeking no longer for the fulfillment arrived,

Instead, many waste their time.

Thinking of putting it off for another day

A day that comes for them in eternity

Lost land time would be better spent

Leaving all behind in betterment... completed.

UNCOMPLETED

Understanding logistics can leave

Needs not satisfied; worry makes weary

Completion comes from peace inside.

Only if one knows that fulfillment

Metes from God are the Stella prize

Putting man's gifts in a lesson light

Lest the man is also God-centered

Evening the board to loving

Tones of a happy family

Everyone gathered together

Doting on doing things shared

~PLMS/PCSS~ 2019-2022 ~posted 2.26.2022

Thanks to Owen Vangioni for the photo at Unsplash

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