Alone

A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer. Three are even better, for a triple-braided cord is not easily broken. ~ Ecclesiastes 4:12

Loner.
All by myself,
alone.
Standing on the sideline,
watching the action,
acting absorbed,
busy,
so you won’t speak.
Loner.
Lonely.
Lonesome.
I stand in the corner,
sit to the side,
a wall at my back,
silent,
unasking,
protective.
You’d take my back? You’d help
conquer the fear,
the fearsome?
And you, too?
I’m honored.
I’m enlivened.
Unbroken.

God, help me to know

help’s there,

I don’t have to stand alone.

Give me courage to accept

what’s freely offered.

A Time for Verse -
Poetic Ponderings on
Ecclesiastes
(Kindle Locations 344-353)