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Poems

Restoration

From the April 1986 issue of The Christian Science Journal


And I will restore to you
the years that the locust hath eaten....
(Joel 2:25)

Years
stripped bare
swallowed by locusts
are not forever lost.

No final destruction
is possible:
God can restore
that which the locust devours.

Soul-filled
Love-laden
Truth-tempered
years

exterminate
the locusts of our lethargy
the grasshoppers of our greed
the weevils of our worldliness.

Then humbly we harvest
the unspoiled fruits
of our God-directed
labors of love.

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