Day 742 of the Daily Poems. It’s Sunday morning, so let us turn to Matthew 6:22-24 “The light of the body is the eye” which by a stretch may lead us to the portals of the soul. Our poet today, Julia Usher, exhorts us to fling wide the portals …
Portals
If eyes be portals of the Soul,
Fling wide their openness and read……
….new meanings, beauties, washed by tears,
letting go the river of these fears……
Pandora’s box was safe enough –
No man of hardened heart is tough enough
to risk what might be locked inside;
nor brave enough to risk……..
the loss of HOPE………
…Kept fixed upon the metal lock…….
The keys we keep in stock, in purse, in drawer;
No heart can risk the loss of treasure locked inside
the loss of HOPE……….
Fling wide the portals then, and still believe –
with hope; no loss; with love, retrieved…………….
Julia Usher