ARMED TO THE TEETH
Image courtesy of Pixabay’s ThePixelman
My stomach is tied up in knots.
I wonder who’s calling the shots.
And will they admit
when the bullet gets bit
even they had their own second thoughts?
© Marie Elena Good, 2020
pictured words
a simple pairing of pictures and poetry
Tag: Love one another
January 14, 2020
November 15, 2019
A WORLD OF NO FORGIVENESS
Illustration: Quentin Blake/Puffin
“Look at what you has done. And there be no forgiveness.” (From Roald Dahl’s “The BFG”)
A WORLD OF NO FORGIVENESS
This story begins
not with, “Once upon a time,”
but with, “At no time.”
At no time has there
ever existed a world
of no forgiveness.
We could not go on
without mercy and pardon
for one another,
from one another,
and, yes, also for ourselves.
For our Creator
has built forgiveness
into the very fabric
of our humanness.
How deeply ingrained
is our need for forgiveness?
How deeply ingrained?
How deeply healing
when I myself forgive me?
And again I ask
How deeply healing?
Our God made a way for us
to be forgiven.
Made in His image,
the road is already paved
to forgive others.
Made in His image,
the road is already paved
to forgive ourselves.
So let’s live our lives
in the state of forgiveness
that’s been granted us.
“Look what you has done
and there be no forgiveness,”
and upside-down lakes,
and trogglehumpers,
and dreams that float like fireflies
are just a story.
© Marie Elena Good, 2019
June 30, 2019
TRUER THINGS
Image by Brian Merrill from Pixabay
What makes you feel loved?
I silently asked no one in particular,
Expecting their response
To match mine.
But it didn’t.
So I had to learn them –
Their language,
Their movements,
Their culture,
Their needs,
Their history –
Them.
Then I silently said again,
To all who were there and not there –
What makes you feel loved?
This time, their answer matched mine.
It always did.
© Marie Elena Good, 2019
September 7, 2018
THERE ARE TIMES (AND WE ARE IN THEM)
There are times (and we are in them)
when people communicate
without vision,
in every way in which that phrase
may be defined.
There are times (and we are in them)
when truth seems intangible,
and lies lie before us.
With us.
In us.
There are times (and we are in them)
when the enemy of our souls
thinks he has the best of us,
because we give him reason.
There are times (and we are in them)
when the God who created all
sees His creation through eyes
we cannot even glimpse,
much less grasp.
There are times (and we are in them)
when this same God
immeasurably loves His weak children
and holds our downcast, shamed faces
in His hands.
There are times (and we are in them)
when the need for one another
is greater than the sum total
of the sin we daily live.
There are times (and we are in them)
that crave recognition of
our Savior’s costly love for us –
to help us see ourselves and others
for what we are:
children
in need of love.
© Marie Elena Good, 2018
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