Questions to Consider When Waking

by Bernadette Miller

What would you do if you really knew

that life was wanting to sing through you?

What would you say if your words could convey

prayers that the world was waiting to pray?

What would you be if your being could free

some piece of the world’s un-whispered beauty?

What would you stop to bless and caress

if you believed that blessing could address

our painful illusions of brokenness?

What would you harvest from heartache and pain

if you understood loss as a way to regain

the never-forsaken terrain of belonging?

What would you love if your love could ignite

a sea full of stars on the darkest night?