Yahweh

When your child’s cry first hits your ears
When parents pass away

When new crops are seeded every year
When the harvest’s underway

When life is slain and sacrificed
When it’s returned, restored and healed

When dismantling the edifice
When brick and mortar cracks are sealed

When weeping is in season
When tears of laughter flow

When mourning has good reason
When dancing’s pure and not for show

When valuables are scattered and tossed
When treasure’s gathered from what was lost

When the long embrace is welcome and warm
When greetings are stoic, and proper in form

When the search is all there seems to be
When giving up means being free

When keeping, holding fast and tight
When throwing out the waste

When things are torn, from left to right
When mending’s done with grace, not haste

When silence speaks a thousand words
When speaking leaves them silent

When love is felt and, seen and heard
When hate manifests in violence

When war demands the best and worst of what’s hidden in a man
When peace comes from a woman’s touch, a gentle loving hand

When it happens, when it comes,
when you end up where you are;

Questions of: what, where, why, and how are never off to far…

How and why take action?
Where to go, and what to do?

I submit to you that the answer’s found in none other than the ‘who’

-April 2021