If I Could Help You

A second poem with the title the same as a Leonard Cohen poem:

If I Could Help You

If I could help you

I would learn to say no

I would wait for you to ask

If I could help you 

I would ease your suffering

but only if you told me

'I'm ready to feel better'

If I could help you

I would share my story

so you knew you were not alone

If I could help you 

I would allow you to fall

ready to give you a hand up

when you sensed it was time to stand

If I could help you 

I would make you tea and toast

if tea and toast was medicine enough

If I could help you

I would listen to your story

to learn where the pain had injured your soul

to learn where your faith and strength was hidden

If I could help you

I would.

“People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, 

revived, reclaimed, and redeemed. Never throw out anyone.”

~ Audrey Hepburn

Surfacing

Surfacing

into clear air

breathing deeply

walking slowly

planting, tidying, organizing

faith that simple self care

will counter the deep dive of yesterday and yesterday.

“This above all, to refuse to be a victim. 

Unless I can do that I can do nothing.”

~ Margaret Atwood, Surfacing

Going Deep

Going deep

deep into today

sorting through each minute

looking for what was good

what was right

what glowed

yet the flatness of this day

glossed over any moments

of rightness

of goodness

of the moments that glowed

except for faith

in the human heart ~

the heart, mind and soul that suffers

that has come from a broken life story

I found tiny moments that were

    right

        good

             shining with gloss

Going deep into today

“Without deep reflection one knows from 

daily life that one exists for other people.”

~ Albert Einstein