We Had Hoped

January 12, 2023 | < 1

dsmartin

An illustrated photo of a plant with new roots growing despite damage

Luke 24:21

How hard to walk a bleak road
Do you not know?
the path before us uphill
Have you not heard?
With talk of dreams all past tense
our feet come to a standstill

A once-bulging heart like a punctured
waterskin dribbles thin
& it’s pointless to refill until made new
But what if we’re wrong
about being wrong? What if we let our
hearts again burn within us?

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D.S. Martin is Poet-in-Residence at McMaster Divinity College. Angelicus (2021) is now available from Wipf & Stock ― a poetry collection written from the point of view of angels. Visit his blog Kingdom Poets and his website.

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