Hope - Bill Denham

[Larry Robinson]

Hope


 
I do not stand in judgment.
            I simply weep
            for the blindness I see
            around me,
            for the hurt inflicted,
            knowingly or unknowingly,
            upon the marginalized.
            I know nothing else to do
            but weep for this reality,
            for this inability to love
            each other.
 
May my tears fall upon this arid soil,
            may their moisture
            find the heart’s seed,
            dry and shriveled,
            for lack of loving,
            for the lack of tears,
            for the lack of life giving moisture.
            May my tears envelop
            each shriveled heart seed,
            allow each seed to swell,
            to begin to feel once more
            what has been lost—
            the ability to grieve,
            to weep and to water
            with their own tears
            other dry and shriveled
            heart seeds.
 
In this way, my grief is a fount of hope,          
            for only in my tears,
            only through my tears,
            shared in community,
            am I able to live fully,
            to weep and then to dance,
            to dance and then to weep,
            in this never ending cycle
            of being human—
            we are born and we die.
            
If we are to live fully
            in that interim, in that short time
            we are given, we must weep
            for we all know we are destined to loose
            everything and everyone 
            we have ever loved.
            So, only through our grief, 
            only through our weeping,
            openly, publicly, communally,
            are we able to embrace our full humanness,
            our own divinity, the wholeness of our lives, 
            to experience genuine hope and joy, 
            knowing our tears are watering
            the shriveled heart seeds of the world.
 
Jesus wept.
 
	- Bill Denham
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