June   4,   2020

WITHIN

Surgeons need lights when they look within,

so too psychoanalysts and friends who

are trying to listen to what we’re feeling.

I prefer learning what’s within – when it’s

a box of chocolates and I know one of

these babies have red raspberry within.

Tell me more. Tell me how you swim with
God when you swim or when you sit with

God on a park bench or corner church seat.

Tell me about the old lady you visit on Thursday

afternoon for tea or the kids you tutor in math

for free and how you love Willie Nelson's songs.

Tell me how you figured life out after your husband

died and your kids were out and about - paving

their paths and roads and familying their families.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2020