Two Words Together

today's prayer
for the women in my life
those worthy
vibrant
thriving
struggling heroins
in my life
was a prayer
a cry
for faith-filled
honesty

today i hurt
one of the friend-gifts
that i treasure
deeply
daily
hopefully

i was angry
and i said so
and i didn't stop there

and i hurt
one of the friend-gifts
that i treasure

i do not know
how to feel
how to express
how to be
and yet be true to my good Lord
my good friends
i

do

not

know

how

right
wrong

irrelevant
if i hurt
the ones i treasure
more
than my own life

face lifted to the sky
i seek the One
who does not change
like shifting shadows

heal
transform
make us
all
that we were ever
ever
ever
to be
all