I Heard A Long Gone Song

I have traveled

far away from myself

wherever I go

I will leave with the breeze

like a fallen 

heart-shaped leaf 

in the wind

I will

begin again

The Bridge

You know

we go 

with you.

Some days

when the grass is wet

our way 

is slow

to follow

as you walk ahead 

but all is known

though

 nothing is said

a candle lights above our heads.

The Green Bridge, 1926

Painting by Ethel Spowers (1890-1947)

Design Edition Habit Press, Australia 2014

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Saint Francis Of Assisi Prayer

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.

Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.

O divine Master, grant that
     I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand,
To be loved as to love;
For it is in giving that we receive;
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
It is in dying to self 
     that we are born to eternal life.

              - Saint Francis of Assisi