" THE WONDERMENT "

From the house amid the trees
There comes a great choir's dirge
A wraith goes by, to where, no one knows
For the moment has come and gone
Without a spoken word
Death has knocked
And a child is left, fatherless
So the mother takes her by the hand
And slowly walks her
Into the wonderment....

A single star up in the sky
Seems to speak to her
She is not familiar with the Wonderment
But she feels, with great compassion
The looming loss of her father
And then
The Wonderment comes to her....

It urges her to put on her mourning dress
She walks along a forsaken trail
And finds that she is lost
When suddenly she see's the light
This Wonderment
Is what we think we can ALL become
The good in you, the good in me
The recognition
Of purity....

So in her mourning dress
She steps into the light
And on her knees
She takes a sip of Divinity
In the form of wine
For her, the time has come
And all the girls in the choir
Kneel down to sing along
For they have found their way back home
And without them even knowing
That they have tasted
And perpetuated
The Wonderment
Through song...

Tony Taylor   (Chicago)