We are broken
But we are entirely intact
We are shattered
but still in one piece
We are grieving
but still wholly complete
We are lost
but found
We leave the throng
and arrive in Him
We run
but never for long
We look left, or right
within and without
He is always there,
waiting for us to recognise
We are broken
but held together by love
Shattered
but pieced together with tender intent
Grieving
but held from breaking apart
Lost in ourselves
but never to Him
Who finds the cracks
and enters them
to restore us from inside out.
Ana Lisa de Jong
October 2017
Image: Rosolana Zasiadko, Unsplash
Living Tree Poetry 