I'm Here

ARC © July 4, 2016 I’M HERE

I go to daily mass; check cell phone text before end;
best friend alerts ` on for breakfast’ with: I’m Here.

Inner and outer smile infuses throughout my being;
soul sister exemplifies the best: I hold her very dear.

Here I Am Lord is poignant hymn resonating from soul;
refrain: I have heard you calling in the night…defines me.

Septuagenarian life orchestrated in answering spiritual call;
Love Commandments root with multifaceted branches my tree.

Same for her, yet our lives have taken dramatic opposite paths;
one marriage, nurse, caretaker for daughter now sweet hereafter.

Me: several nuptials/careers: child education, psychology, recovery;
two children also but grands/greats and kaleidoscope party laughter.

She, though younger, exemplified wisdom/spiritual maturity first;
pain, suffering, death daily patient crisis wraps her morning to night.

Her direct path to divine holy orders, acceptance, and obedience are pure;
most of my life like Scarlett - getting closer to Melanie…late making right.

We were guided to each other by divine mystery’s synchronicity;
decade ago lives converged and revolved around daughter’s trauma.

I was recovering from horrific ordeal – so needed friendship and support;
she needed same – we grew closer together week by week over life drama.

Now saintly daughter is orchestrating our bond from heavenly abode;
we feel her young life next to similar Saint Teresa guiding and caressing.

I am so grateful to this mother and daughter who have influenced me so;
my twilight years have been enriched because of them: a divine blessing.

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