I felt the curse today.
Keenly I saw it in your eyes as you fondled your child. The one you must still protect from me. I spoke and you listened, but our main discourse occurred between our pupils. Five minutes we looked. Foreigners to one another, yet eight feet away. I thought you to be asking me "why"?
I didn't have the answer.
The division of our languages happened far before Babel. You take me back to Eden with your blink. You don't trust me and I can't earn it back. How is it we share the same air, the same dirt, the same home - the same Creator - and we can't trust each other? I asked you to hear me out. You stood, both of you. You moved your child behind you. Am I so much a threat? I tried to explain it's not my fault. If I could I would remove this distance.
I can't redeem you - or us.
Perhaps you know me better than I do. Do you think I would fail if we had a relationship? Would I kill us both as my father Adam did? Probably. This hurts me more than I can remember before.
You heard me out, and bounded away - or did your fawn jump first? However it was, you returned to the safety of the woods, leaving me to feel the weight of a lost Eden. I can't wait for the not yet of the new earth - then you will let me touch your children and you may play with mine.
6 comments:
Won't that be fabulous to ride whales and sleep with fawns?
I liked how you kept me guessing as to what the heck you were talking about till the end. :D
Thank you, We the Empress, for being smarter than me. I was way too scared to comment. Now I get it. Oh Pilgrim, you sure are a fascinating mind.
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That will be really nice. Just to be at one with creation.
Sorry to freak you out Les, maybe it did sound a bit strange without enough descriptors...
love the way you write, sweet Rosemary. 'd love to see you in one of the upcoming groups coming to sarajevo. we're in a great little anglican fellowship here, can you believe it??!!
Rob!!! It is so good to hear from you! I keep your family daily in my prayers as you serve the Lord in Sarajevo. I will have to email you about the Church you're in, I am pleased that you have found an Anglican fellowship there.
And how I would love to come over.... This is the longest I've been away from E. Europe in 2 1/2 years - strange thought.
All my love to you guys.
Beautiful, Nicole. It was nice watching the same deer off your porch!
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