LENTEN MOMENT

Another poem, this time from author Mark Nepo

Lent is a good time for assessment – and this poem is a good one to help us on our journey of assessment

FEELING LOST   

When I stop squirming, I realize

that lost is just an echo of where

I think I’m going or where

others thing I should be.

When I cut the cord to the future

and the rope to the past, I have

trouble remembering what

made me afraid.

With all the lines cut, I want

to spread before light like a young

tree and to do nothing.

Others are worried.  When

I get more coffee, they whisper,

“He’s lost his ambition.”  “He’s lost

his focus.”  “He’s getting old.”  But I

feel the coffee slip down my throat,

coaxing my voice to come alive.

                         -Mark Nepo