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Sonnets
Poet Lariat
WAITING ON GOD
Better to look towards God and see Him naught
than view the world and see it all!
To expect a Love which limits not
than witness love that fails and falls!
The former stretches soul and mind
the latter, pallid, shrinks from hurts.
The one seeks peace, its Source to find;
with violence the other flirts.
Better, kneeling, plead for light
than picture phantoms of the dark.
Prayer’s vacuum waits throughout the night,
not distracted, startled by a bark.
Unannounced God enters patient minds;
the vacuum overflows as He the seeker, finds.
Poems from the Eighth Decade
Copyright © Harold Macdonald 2004
used with permission