WHAT LOVE CAN DO

Poem for Today - Tuesday  September 30,  2014

TRUE LOVE

binds all wounds,

wounds all heels,

whatever. You can tell.

William Buckley,

Gore Vidal, Sampson

and Delilah. Paul

and the Corinthians.

You can tell.

It makes us fight

and bleed, takes us to the heights,

the deeps, where we don't

want to go. Adam and Eve. Noah

and Mrs., David,

Bathsheba, Ruth,

Naomi. You can tell.

The way light surges

Out of nothing. The Magdalene,

The gardener, God help us,

We are God’s chosen now.

© Kathleen Norris

in Upholding Mystery,

An Anthology of

Contemporary Christian

Poetry, Oxford  University

Press, New York, 

Oxford, 1997,

Pages 223-224

Painting on Top:

St. Maximilian Kolbe,

who gave his life

for another.