Light

My friend Carol was diagnosed with cancer last week. The following poem is her story from childhood. She told me this in response to a Leonard Cohen lyric: "There is a crack in everything that's how the light gets in." Your prayers for Carol are deeply appreciated.

Leonard's Lyric

She remembers

The farm at night

Dark hayloft

Straw sticking her legs

Eerie for a city child

Unused to rural life

Lying on stacked bales

Her mind wanders

Wondering what

Might be lurking

In the midnight corners

She is grateful

For the barn roof cracks

Allowing tiny streams of

Starlight to enter

To shine To take away

Her fear

In the distance

A bird sings

Of Michigan and

Long ago

Christie for Carol

praying for starlight

with love, September 28, 2010