Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Poem: To Ruthie On Her Celebration Of Another Golden Birthday (or so), 2014



I lay in bed wondering, like Don Octavio,
“Have I surrendered my life
to the momentum of mediocrity?”
I see you lying next to me,
sleeping so deeply, that
I can barely see your chest rise
with each breath.
Have I handed over my sword
in abject surrender to mediocrity?
No, for it is I, not another,
who lays next to you tonight.
It is speculated that as one grows in age
beauty fades, but wisdom increases.
Generalizations do not fit you,
for the impoverishment of language
and philosophies fall short
in their attempt to encapsulate you.
How well has Holy Mother Sophia
loved you, her Divine light shines
deep in your eyes. As your
capacity to love has increased
so has your beauty deepened
and spread like a wild Divine fire
to the lives of all you touch.
As I lay next to you tonight,
it is not to the momentum of mediocrity
that I have surrendered, no,
it is to you, Doña Ruth
that I surrender, a complete and
full surrender to grace.

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