Abstract
Please grant me the grace of time
In these words that fall from mouths like stones
Never with ease
Kilimanjaro's peaks less arduous.
Please grant me words like silk
Offerings that wrap you in softness
Like lullabies easing the strain of grief.
Silence breaches the back and forth and we hold still, together.
Today we may not complete our task.
Please grant me the patience to honor the pause
Offered to allow the penetration of fate
Evaluating life and death
Myself only a conduit to your destiny.