Reservoir 2: A Prayer of Grief and Hope

Reservoir 2

You meet me at the reservoir,

Once again together

Overlooking the pain. 

So much held back.

We behold the sources

The tributaries that fill it

Which one will we navigate,

Held in your love?

Diving deep into troubled waters.

With you

Needing you

Memories wash over me

Feelings, fears, and frames

Looking together,

Seeing each wound

You are here beside me

But also there

Revealed in every frame

You

Affected

Moved to sorrow

Compassion

There with me in it all

You speak

And

Mighty waters flow

Rushing away

Down and to the right

Draining away sorrows

Revealing solid land before us

Drying out

And you

gently planting seeds

That in love will grow

And fill this reservoir within me

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