Reaching Into the Future, This
For Jennifer S. Padre, on her birthday, March 2009
It is the equinox of night and day
Memory and remembrance
This reaching and reaching far
Far into the future, this!
It is your birthday, and the days
And years and decades are ahead
Reaching far into that gift
Of saying and naming
Before and after the cares
Even as we taste the words
What they mean
What they look like
In the heart that means so much
For the dreamer that sings!
We look back and we count
What counting can tell us all
To account what forgetting
Can mean to make us live
Lives, full and fuller beyond
This song we wrap with
With the colors of our thanksgiving
Which is yours too
We who repair that which is broken
We who mend those needing mending
To put together redemption’s seed
In the first request for forgiving
That which was not there
In the first place but here,
Today, at this hour, here is
This gift, our warmest wishes,
Our endless greetings.
A Solver Agcaoili
Hon, HI/Mar 2009
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