Poetry

a poem from the archives (a.k.a. last year)

by Laurel Luehmann

Hello, friends!

I dug out some of my old poetry the other day and found so many poems I’d forgotten…I touched one up and decided to share it with you here. I hope it blesses you like it did me.❤

oh, My child…

I see the pain in the way

you hold your head so high –

stiff, afraid of being weak,

vulnerable, for you feel that

another scar would be a thousand too many.

I see you, love,

when you’ve crawled to a secret place

to let out the grief

when the sobs rise without bidding,

and you trap the muffled wails deep in your throat.

even when you weep, you’re guarded…

but I see you.

I want you to know that

you can stop tracing the scars,

running your fingers through the pains in your past

as if they were pearls.

I want you to look up…

see Me, love.

aren’t I more to you than your broken dreams?

will you risk it all just to sail with Me?

I need you to trust Me when I say

this does not need to be your last chapter.

I promise…one day you will smile again

without brushing the ghost of this sorrow.

I’m wanting to read some more cozy poetry this autumn…do you have any favorite poets/collections you would recommend? Please drop any ideas in the comments!

Stay the course!

❤ Laurel

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7 thoughts on “a poem from the archives (a.k.a. last year)”

  1. I like this. Part of it

    (this part: “I want you to look up…

    see Me, love.

    aren’t I more to you than your broken dreams?

    will you risk it all just to sail with Me?”)

    reminds me of something I read recently in a Spurgeon devotional: “Jesus is the star of the sea; and though there be sorrow upon the sea, when Jesus is on it there is joy too.”

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  3. “see Me, love.”

    Oh, I love this. I love how tender and kind our God is, and how praise–turning our eyes to Him–brings utmost healing!! And that He carries our sorrows and walks with us in the every day. ❤ Thanks for sharing your gift, sis!

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