A Song of Astonishment

I stood, transfixed, today.

A single drop of rain sat quivering on a branch

I touched it, and it fell.

I stood, transfixed, today.

Glistening ice shimmered with light I couldn’t see

On the roof of a car.

I stood, transfixed, today.

The dying sun threw golden light up, up

To the chimney tops.

I stood, transfixed, today.

I saw a hundred people pass me by like grains of sand

None were the same.

I stood, transfixed, today.

I found out something more about who He is -

Unchanging but always new.

I stood, transfixed, today

And so I knew I had to tell you what I found

So maybe you’d look tomorrow.

D Shervington 2006