ADAM'S WALL

   ADAM’S WALL

With this wall

we do not grieve

for what no longer is

but celebrate what was:

the joyous gift of life

on temporary loan

from its Creator.

And with this wall

we sing and celebrate what is:

the spirit of these children;

it is alive in the pristine pink of dawn,

in the new blue of every sky,

in the fullness of the moon and

the incandescence of the stars;

their spirit lives in the green growth of spring,

in the rhythmic voice of the sea,

in the song of birds at dawn. 

Their spirit lives in the unwrinkled

skin and flaxen hair of youth,

in the allegretto of children playing in the park.

 

And if we shed a tear today,

it is a tear of gratitude,

gratitude for life, their life.

They live, they live

in the light and laughter

of all that is new,

they live in the now

of nature’s eternal renewal.

Jim Hietter

August, 2004