A Trembling Heart and Slender Vine

by Bindu Lanka, on courage

I need it today,

I need the love.

Need the love from God, to feel the love within.

But I am aflame with anger,

watching someone I love

wronged before my eyes.

I am supposed to help, but I don't know how.

For me, God is love, and

Only to God, I turn for all things now.

Yet love feels distant-

As anger and fear course through my blood

clouding my eyes, blinding me to God.

And love?

I question its worth.

I feel hopeless, as I reach for God,

but God is love, and that is so hard now.

I want to reach out, to support,

But-

My anger ferociously devours, my words of comfort.

My fear, a bottomless pit, drags me deeper into the dark.

Maybe, even if love right now

Is but a slender vine,

it is the only lifeline that can pull me out.

For love, like gentle rain on scorching flames,

Softly smothers the blaze of anger,

And fills the aching void with the fullness of peace.

For I know

Love is God

and God is only love