Sunday, August 28, 2011
Have You Ever Seen God?
Have you ever seen God
In your child's first smile?
¶ 10:51 PM In your lover's soft breathing?
In the eyes of your dying parent?
Have you ever seen God
When your friend for no particular reason says I love you?
When your dog lies contentedly in your lap?
When you hear the joyous sounds from a playground?
Have you ever seen God
In the colors and textures of Starry Night?
In the last seventeen minutes of Shawshank?
In the haunting sound of a penny whistle?
In the prose of Vidal?
In the poetry of Neruda?
In the voice of Jeanette MacDonald?
In the words and cadences of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King?
Have you ever seen God
In a double rainbow?
On a quiet beach at sundown?
In a forest bathed in sunbeams?
Out the window of Denny's at dawn during a peaceful snowstorm?
Have you ever seen God
In the smooth nape of a neck?
In the gentle curve of a back?
In the enveloping softness of lips?
In the sweet scent of your lover?
Have you ever seen God in the fond remembrance
Of easy laughter?
Of peaceful Sundays?
Of lost friends and lost loves?
Have you ever seen God
When your child comes home for the Holidays?
When you've lost hope and found it again?
When you've conquered a demon?
When you've saved a life?
When your life has been saved?
Have you ever seen God when you've come to believe you can love again?
Have you ever seen God?
I have.
