My Kumbaya Moment - Rebecca del Rio

[Larry Robinson]

My Kumbaya Moment

The sky one-dimensional, flat
Shades on white and gray. 
The sun a blur, burning
A hole in the smeared sky.

I had coffee with God this morning. 
I know it's not fashionable
To speak of God when so many
Suffer, so many images crowd

Our cluttered, small consciousness. 
But still, I need God, if only 
The idea of Something Greater
Than Ourselves here. So I ask

And here You are, disguised poorly,
As a sun, a sky and the persistent 
Bird song in my limited Paradise. 

	- Rebecca del Rio