With Astonishing Tenderness - Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

[Lawrence Robinson]

With Astonishing Tenderness


When, in the middle of the night, 

you wake with the certainty you’ve

done it all wrong, when you wake

and see clearly all the places you’ve failed,

in that moment, when dreams will not return, 

this is the chance for your softest voice—

the one you reserve for those you love most—

to say to you quietly, oh sweetheart, 

this is not yet the end of the story. 

Sleep will not come, but somehow, 

in that wide awake moment there is peace—

the kind of peace that does not need

everything to be right before it arrives. 

The peace that comes from not fighting 

what is real. The peace that rises

in the dark on its sure dark wings 

to meet you exactly as you are.

	- Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer