Sustenance

Is a kind heart enough

To sustain us?

To keep us afloat in the dark times

When black tides threaten the banks

Of our being

Even as the benevolence of stars shine

Out of the inky blackness

Like spiritual beacons

Reminding us we

Too

Are composed

Of stars?

In the falling times

Emptiness threatens

The emptiness of a child left all alone

Wondering

Dreaming

Waiting

Imagining

She needs the wilderness

Its healing is as essential to her soul

As breath

So she breathes it in

Even as the heaviness in her heart

Thats feels so tired

Searches those wild places

For sustenance and meaning