The Three

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#003399" TEXT="#080000" background="03cc8c00erkjxk.jpg"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#EEEEEE" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Baskerville" ><B>Naming The Grace</B></FONT><B> </B><B> </B><B> </B><B>  |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Naming The Grace"><U><B>home</B></U></A><B>    </B><A HREF="id46.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Few Pages of Poetry"><U><B>A Few Pages of Poetry</B></U></A></div> <div>                                                   </div> <div> The Three</div> <div> <B>I had screamed toward distant stars</B></div> <div> <B>and was greeted only by the cold of night and wind.</B></div> <div> <B>Yet, huddled here beneath an ocean shell</B></div> <div> <B>as small as ocean sand,</B></div> <div> <B>You hear my whisper and return in mighty ocean thunder</B></div> <div> <B>the Glory of your name.</B></div> <div> <B>   *********</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Unexpectedly He comes</B></div> <div> <B>                              and goes without my say.</B></div> <div> <B>I bend before the roaring of His times</B></div> <div> <B>and in His windy Spirit find my sway;</B></div> <div> <B>                               a dance thats danced without the world's</B></div> <div> <B>                               vast song,</B></div> <div> <B>                               I seem before a gawking crowd to dance alone;</B></div> <div> <B>                               unseen the cloud of witnesses with me.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>   *********</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>I am open within and closed without.</B></div> <div> <B>I come on silent feet veiled as an Arab woman.</B></div> <div> <B>The celebrious clapping of your children surround me,</B></div> <div> <B>yet I, one of the children, am silent,</B></div> <div> <B>overwhelmed in the presence of the incarnate One.</B></div> <div> <B>        His presence evokes Your reality.</B></div> <div> <B>        His reality removes the negation.</B></div> <div> <B>        Yet lingers the glow of otherness,</B></div> <div> <B>               overwhelming my</B></div> <div> <B>               bowed spirit </B></div> <div> <B>                    I weep.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>      </B><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#663300" FACE="Baskerville" ><B>  by Viola Larson</B></FONT></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>