Dan Bellm
Sabbath
Then will I carry
you within me for as long
as I can: not a
consolation but
a promise, and not because
I must: not as you
carried me but to
be your keeper, a place where
you remain the one
bearing life: not as
a god or idol that I
have made too small, but
only blessing you
do I keep the blessing safe:
infant image of
the created one
I long to be, Sabbath-self
concealed in the guise
of ordinary
time, my life the covering
that protects the vow.
She Waits
Looked for her in the
unseen—in the play of air
against the edge of
what appeared to be—
a child’s laugh in a neighbor
yard could recall her,
only to call her
back into what had passed—sought
her in dreams, but she
waited at one side
in the not to be dreamed of
yet, neither asking
for hope nor giving
it, not saying yes or no—
tried to step out of
the way, as she taught,
to see if that would make it
simpler to be found—
felt she wanted to
be held, even hold on to
the child she’d made, but
she wouldn’t say—was
it more blessèd not to be
anyone, was that
the problem now, was
she deciding—tried praying
her across then, but
could not, for she kept
remaining in the light she
had brought to the world—








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This is very touching and beautiful, finds the words for feelings I have but couldn't articulate!
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