Texas Dust

After midnight on the east coast, but still Friday
back in Texas, where my thoughts and prayers and
heart were focused from this morning til tonight,
not knowing what was going on exactly, just that something
was. And now that it's all over, and the Texas dust has somewhat
settled, and my friends and loved ones are all safely
in their homes (perhaps their beds, by now; my own is
calling me quite stridently just past the strike of twelve)
I find that I am grateful and relieved, and also
overwhelmed that very little in my life right now
is just the way I want it, and yet God is still enthroned
in heaven, and in Texas, and right here.


(c) Ellen Gillette, 2014