But what if

Dear Friend

… You are no part of a contemporary scene,

but warm and gentle, loving, poised

with thoughts bright, reserved, dignified

in mannerism and in style:

Ah, the pure stream has found

its path in the agelessness of

timeless qualities of joy, wisdom,

vitality, love and strength of mind!

Ask, what has “time” to do with beauty?

Is not Beauty a transparency found

alone in the splendor of Soul

and goes forth expressed in words,

gaze, and deeds, as a nobility

undefined,  … and unbound?

... I’m musing over paradoxes:

Of the notions of youth! How aged

some appear as if standing

before a scaffold, because 

the thought is sadly scorched:

it fears “old” and thus feels old.

Now, tell me, “What is this -- about?”

I’m pondering the bold design of God!

Could His blueprint be useless,

unfit to glow, unable within to grow?

Thought is creative!

What if a mind convinced

 of dark clouds hovering over

would make a belief come true?

... Did not Job say:

“The thing which I greatly feared

is come upon me” (3:25)?

Buoyancy, freshness, fullness of life,

these divine graces, which lift

the banner of agelessness high,

conquer self-destructive emotions,

and thus … making a life brighter and lighter,

and have a love for every youthful grace,

where within we find a greater delight

then counting every dark fear’s mace.

And earthly dreams broken: Justify

the love of Jesus for the Christ,

and the price he paid for our victories open …

--eva-maria hogrefe

(September 2012)