Linda M. Crate- Three Poems

make me more than this moment 

Caster of fears

drive them away

they are crippling and debilitating today 

Maker of rainbows

dance some joy in me

let the scars of yesterday fade

into Your blue jade oceans;

if i must be a prophet let me be as Moses

overcoming my fear to speak to people

let me not be melancholy as Elijah

if i have a heart let it be like

David's who was a man of Your word 

let me not fall in these narrow streams of mankind

for You made me for something more than this.

light

i see broken halos of light

everywhere i walk

have Your angels forgot their posts

or are they the fallen ones

whose judgment is yet to come?

are they the guardians You sent to

protect us from all the vile things

that deceive us and try to ensnare us in their

clinging ropes or are they just shadows

of a past long forgotten?

dry bones that need life breathed into them

as Ezekiel did ages ago, i feel sometimes i am one

of those bones brittle and frail i need to remember my purpose

so please breathe it back into my heart as only You

could for i know i am meant to rise from these

sorrows that i won't always be broken,

but sometimes it's hard to believe You'll shine Your

light through someone flawed as me.

wisdom 

Your wisdom is all around me

breathing in the clouds,

growing in the grass,

hanging in the arms of trees

so why is it that so many cannot see

Your face? why is it that they can

see these beautiful things,

and Your imprint lost to them with eyes

blind yet seeing they walk on;

i hope one day Your wisdom will shine upon 

them as i cannot bear the thought of what

should happen to them, otherwise.