Light Was Everywhere

Poems by Richard Wehrman


TRYING TO TELL THE TRUTH


If I said
this was all true,
that would be a lie.
It would be—
at best—a try.
That’s what it is,
honest.

I was never good at math,
but my sense of
balance beamed.
It was like a light—
a gift—and
when it rayed, well,
this equaled that,

the way my hand here,
on your breast beats the same—
feel it?—

as your hand,
here,
on mine.


THE NIGHT PRAYER


Full of fear in the night,
I asked God for strength—
He said, "You have always
been fearless!"

Feeling so empty and alone
I asked God to fill me—
He said, "You have always
been Full."

Feeling so separate and adrift,
I asked God to hold me—
He said, "Dear one, since time began,
you have never been out
of my arms."

And so, in peace at last,
I slept.

The Heart of the world is the world without, within…

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