The air has its own grain,
its patterns the eye cannot follow.
Long ago the gulls learned to read
these maps our senses guess at best.
It seems we walk in ways the heart opens,
that the mind cannot follow,
does not even read.
We are blind to our own steps.
God’s arm lies across our shoulders
softer than air itself,
a thing we have no senses for
but strong as death itself.
God’s touch outlasts the act of dying,
remakes stars,
and yet we cannot read it,
only follow
blind to our own heart
that knows as sure as love
what God’s hand says,
loose about our shoulders,
piercèd though with grace.
Michael Farley
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