Unprotected

Perhaps, my Heart, my Love
I was wrong
To let you go
Unprotected
Into the World –
To let you leave the manor
Without escort.

I expected my father
To go with you –
To train you, to provision you,
To lead you through
The Darkness into
The Morning.

And now, standing here
In my safe, high place,
I see you standing there
alone
At the end of the meadow
At the edge of the forest
Where the Great Wolf lives

And I realize...

I realize
I did not ask my father
To go with you.

Father, my Father...
Please hurry!

Ephesians 6:18, Colossians 4:2, 2 Thessalonians 3:1-3, 1 Peter 5:8

Written January 22, 2008