Amid A Broken Heart

No words could ever quite express
The pain of seeing love withdraw,
No painting capture hope’s demise
When love brings us the higher call;

The sacrifice of hopes and dreams
Is an offering like Abraham’s,
Yet I’m required to pay the price,
Without acquittal from a ram;

But here, amid a broken heart,
I feel myself in God’s embrace;
A peace is washing over me,
A gift, unearned, of boundless grace.

© Benjamin Graber
bgraber@neo.rr.com