(2 Cor 3:17-18)


I live in unfamiliar places:
the unknowing of empty spaces
between what was and what is yet to be.
It is the hardest earthly place for me
to dwell within, pause, absolutely still,
knowing only God and love can fill
the wanting, one drop at a time.
It is surely not by rhyme
nor reason of ordinary mind
through which I might find
the Ancient Spirit's graces
such be-in-tween spaces
are sometimes wont to bestow.
I've come to know
it's only through the heart's abiding
that Wisdom might be found hiding
in the shadows of such Sacred Pause.
I offer up what was
to mourn in empty spaces
let go of warm embraces
so what is yet to be
may somehow birth in me.

--Pam Breau
first published in "Presence," October 2004

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