FMF : Beauty ...

It's time to limber up the poetry bone for Five Minute Friday!

Get ready to write for five minutes (ONLY five minutes!), link up, and share some encouraging commentary with the blogger before you.

The topic chosen by Lisa-Jo at The Gypsy Mama for today is:

Beauty

Ready?

Here          we          go.

Beauty…

Elusive, hidden

in the raising

of hands to Heaven,

and the hiding of eyes

when I know I must be

a disappointment to You.

Where’s the beauty

in failing?

In watching the clock

hands race and never quite

catching up with where I

think I should be?

The striving, the quiet

prayers whispered beneath

the breath, the constant

rededication,

the breaking of me

to be made more like You.

Scarlet washed white,

drenching me in

mercy’s flood.

The weak made strong.

A nondescript, numb

existence made beautiful.

(c) Victoria L. Banks