thank You

thank you
for making me cry
for taking my walls and my will, and
shifting old sand
and clouding my sky

thank me
for letting you in
to clean house, redecorate
to renovate
to expose my sin

thank him
for touching your eyes
for reaching across your
dark world, for
hearing your cries

~ ~ ~

thankful
is what we become
when justice is absent, or looking away
and mercy, from another world,
remembers nothing, except the way
we welcome her