IN THESE VIRAL DAYS -poem [Su, 1-3-21]

CHRIST IN WINTER: Reflections on Faith & Life for the Years of Winter

IN THESE VIRAL DAYS -poem                  [Su, 1-3-21]

 

In these days of viruses

in the air and on the skin

In hearts of women and of men

gone mad with sunless power

 

It is so hard to find

a hope within

the mud and muck

 

I search so hard

the classic blind pig

of lore, nosing

in the mud, trusting

in the promise

of a truffle

 

The comfort of old age

is the great store house

of memories that were once

but hopes, then nurtured

into memory with springtime

rains and summer sun

 

It is winter now

I sit in the middle

between the hopes

and memories

and choose the ones

that sparkle

in the snow

 

John Robert McFarland