May 3, 2023

Sometimes

sometimes

I think I can understand why

staying becomes so very hard

sometimes

I think I can understand fear

light will not be found again

sometimes

I think I can understand hope

for a place where pain is not

sometimes

I think I can understand pain

so overwhelming it must end

sometimes

I think I can understand why

leaving becomes so very easy

sometimes

This has been (and is) a horrid stretch of days;

were it not that God holds my life …