Day 347: Saint Waiting

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it is said
that Mother Teresa of Calcutta
went to India
after God told her to do so.

it is also said that
even in her early struggles,
though she would ask,
He did not reply again.

i understand that she waited –
throughout her entire
life-long
service –
to hear more.

but no more came.

and she persevered.

 

it makes me wonder;

 

what love is this?

 

that can alter the course of humankind
on one request, alone?

that can feed us
throughout the ages of ourselves
so nutritiously
that we are sustained
to go empty
and full?

whose memory is enough
to embrace us in arms
that intangibly hold.

 

what love is this?

 

and why,
for so many of us,

is it not enough?

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