Gather to Praise



Gather to Praise     

This day give thanks

for life, for promise,

for hope in abundance.

Gather us in,

the old and the new.

Celebrate life,

possibility

hope.

Recreate.

Release—

regret hardened to bitterness,

views hardened to certainty,

fear and doubt,

loneliness and anxiety.

Gather us in.  Gather in us;

joy and life

rise anew.

This day give thanks,

give thanks.

This is a poem of omissions, created from something found, something already written.  Words are crossed out of the original to leave other words behind, which themselves create a poem, something old and new that captures an essence.  The original writing is an Easter Sunday bulletin from St. Paul’s United Church in Riverview, NB.  The original work is not mine; this is my word play, a search for the essence.