040723- Trust Me by Wendi S. Harrington

If you missed it yesterday, you’ll want to go back and read it. It’s the first part of this post. Also, I am a member of Faithwriters. They usually have a weekly writing challenge with a prompt. When time allows, I participate in that challenge. This week, the prompt goes right along with today’s post. Yay! I love it when that happens. If you would like to check them out, head on over to https://www.faithwriters.com/ and take a look around.

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Trust Me

My child, my child,

Why do you fret yourself so?

Did you not hear me as I

Whispered through the trees?

Child, I am well-pleased with thee.

It is your adversary that vexes thee

With poisonous words of venom.

Resist! Resist! And he shall flee.

The lass with the dark hair you covet

Uses her lush lips to spew profanity.

Aspire not to have such earthly beauty

When a treasure lies in Heaven just for you.

Those steel-gray eyes you wish were green

Came from a woman who broke more

Tambourines than she could even count.

Thy crooked nose adorned Solomon’s Temple.

The poise with which your grandmother

Stood does now square your shoulders.

And your father’s grandmother before him.

Close your eyes, my sweet child.

Now can you see me? Look again.

Do you see what I see?

The lasting legacy within you.

Do not look with eyes of flesh

To see what really matters.

My child, I do love you so.