Joyful Voices-Tim Roos
Bridge’s Spiritual Connections has started something new this year! We are calling it “Joyful Voices” and it is a platform created to encourage those in the disability community or affiliated with the disability community to share their unique voices through creative mediums such art, poetry, essays, and music.
Our first posting is by Tim Roos who was a Special Education teacher for many years before recently retiring. He is sharing a poem he wrote, and we are thrilled he has given his permission to post his most heartfelt words found in these verses.
Thank you, Tim-
Communion
After the ancient words
are spoken, it is time
for the unfamiliar heart to come forward
by the leg-and-hip gait
of the day. We come by our means-
the wounded gait, the limping
the unswerving gait, the gait
that is soft as a thought.
Let the one come that gets by,
that is still better than a crawl,
though the invitation only is come,
and so one could crawl, there is time for that.
Come crawling. Let the hands and knees
bring the heart. Let palms upon
tall wheels of a clutching chair.
The heart is what matters!
Let the outcast heart come,
the silenced, the grieving.
Let the heart come of the sick
now recovered. Let the heart come
by ups and downs,
like written words,
their caverns of offering.
Tim Roos
2024
(published with permission)
Categorised in: Joyful Voices