Today, on your birthday, I think of you. <br />The first smile and kind words that were ever spoken. <br />I think of the moment when somehow I knew <br />love and pain were greeting me at the very same moment. <br />I ponder what mystery awoke my heart - <br />and I ponder what mystery knew its breaking. <br /> <br />Today, I reflect on the wound that was left <br />and the time it would take to heal its bleeding. <br />I wonder about the tears that still fall <br />with an aching desire to understand their meaning. <br />My heart feels heavy and full with expressions <br />that came up from a well too deep to explain. <br />I am left to pray to God through my tears - <br />each drop, a prayer of words unspoken. <br /> <br />A time will come, sometime, somewhere, <br />when pain and tears will become a quiet knowing. <br />A peaceful understanding will take its place <br />and my heart will smile as we embrace each other fully. <br />Peace to you and peace to me <br />in God’s wisdom lie all mysteries’ unfolding. <br />His ways are higher and always will be <br />though tears continue to fall - <br />yet, somehow, there is a knowing. <br /> <br />~Viola M. Jaynes <br />Feb.2008<br /><br />Viola Jaynes<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/reflective-memories/
