POEM: "The Misunderstanding of 1978"

NOTE: The following poem I wrote is a conversation between me and Mom. She is questioning me and when I respond it is in the different font.
REMEMBER: It's always better to read a poem OUT LOUD. Love L-L

POEM: THE MISUNDERSTANDING OF 1978

(by Laura-Lee RAHN)

‎Saturday, ‎April ‎02, ‎2016
Edmonton, AB, Canada

How'd it go? Did you "have-it-out"?
I see it took some time to find the whole truth out.
So mistrust was planted and lies were spoken
Just to get cheap thrills from watching love lines broken

Misunderstanding over? So why still pained?
Oh. To cure the hurt she had to be restrained

{What about the future, when we're both older?
And I'm too small to physically hold her?}

By then your faithful love will demonstrate to her
And her own dear heart won't under rate the cure.
We'll pray on that future day she'll discern what's true.
Between now and then ...
                           your heart has work to do.




(Thanks again, Mom, for your wisdom and being a living example of who Jesus is)

Poem "What I Learned From My Cat"

NOTE: As with all poems, I suggest you read it OUT LOUD. It helps you to enjoy & understand it (and my poetry can use all the help it can get). L-L

"What I Learned from my Cat"

~ by Laura-Lee Rahn

I learned something while watching my cat.

I discovered where my heart is at.

For years we've shared our home

But part of me is still alone.

 I can't make It love again,

my Heart who knows no friend

And I don't know why.

But I do know I try.

Yet part of me's been made

To only be afraid.

From those who went away? 

From those my heart was betrayed?

You shouldn't pay the cost

for those I loved, then lost.

That's so unfair to You,

Who's been nothing to me but true.

Even though not fair

maybe You will my heart repair

when You're making  "all things new"

My fresh heart I can give to You.

And to see in snowy tracks

No thing between us lacks.

Though now a closed door still

Oh, my heart; It's stubborn will.

Yet I know within my mind

There is love of a lifetime kind.

Inside I'm a stone grown cold,

But may I be so bold?

Knowing what others cannot see,

Because Someone gave ALL to me.

Once separated from my Brat,

I still learn from my cat.

Amidst the physical ache

I found lots of my heart left to break.

~~ January 2016

Alberta, Canada