remember me #2

My last post contained lines from the first of a pair; so here are some lines from the second of the pair, “remember me”:

#2

I remember

the bread

the wine

on my tongue

when birds sing my morning

when my horizon crackles fire colors

every time I breathe rain

on my tongue

the wine

the bread

I remember

© 12 June 2020

Cindy B. Stevens

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remember me #1

These are some lines from the first of a pair, “remember me”, which came as I listened to the litany before the Eucharist:

 # 1

how can I forget

when it’s you who holds my cries until they’re silent

when we both feel winter’s cold sting

on my skin, in my bones, my heart

when it’s you who feels my terror

when I try to starve the desperate voices in me

remember me

© 3 July 2020

Cindy B. Stevens

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I leave me

 

The first, third, and last stanzas of "I leave me":

my widow is a willow tree

my sunlight sparkled silk drags the ground

my greedy roots guzzle rationed water

I don’t want to break

so I refuse to bend

 

my scars feed my heartwood

why do I believe all men are alike?

I watch him so closely I think I hear his beard grow

I bruise him

drain us

 

my trunk hesitates in the doorway

I grab my shoulder bag from the hall table

lock the flat’s door

drop my key through our mail slot

I want to go away from me

 

© 23 July 2017

Cindy B. Stevens

 

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sackcloth and ashes

Six lines from “sackcloth and ashes”:

repentance demands change

my belief?  it’s complicated

I own my sin

will the Jesus sacrifice blanket me?

forgiveness

will it matter how often I ask?

© 3 July 2020

Cindy B. Stevens

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no return war

Here are the first, third, and fifth stanzas of “no return war”:

when I didn’t come back from war my family grieved

they held onto hope

that my missing wasn’t a departure

that my missing was only regret to inform

whereabouts unknown

my family went through my belongings

my photos

my clothing

my mementos:  foreign stamps, coins

we don’t always know the people closest to us

my chaplain tried to help

but it’s something a family has to do

they all wondered about the small wooden box

metal hinges

a simple lock

silk lined

© 3 July 2020

Cindy B. Stevens

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