More Than Anything...

It waits at each turn

A four-letter surprise

In threads of heaven-

Lent paradise

Sometimes it tastes

Like the coffee you brought

After picking up two

‘On second thought’

I’ve seen it

Heaped on a laundry-room floor

A cotton-tossed sea

Where life-echoes roar

In school-work on tables

In dream-dust that wafts

Restless with green hope

Far away, hunger-soft

Four-letter heart-storm

As you rush in

To declare that you found

A whisker on your chin

And you grab Dad’s razor

So eager to shave

I’ve held its whole world

In a ‘see-you, mom’ wave

…and suffered the subtle

Undoing of heart

As its strings bind closer

What life tugs apart

It spills in bills and in
Stripped cookie jars
It thrills the common
In eyes kissed with stars

It shatters life-silences
Scatters 'stuff' about
Out-poured, it refills
What we cannot live without

Thank-you God, more than anything

This is enough

To be part of a beautiful

Picture called Love

© Janet Martin