God's Stained Glass


Beautifully broken comes from a song
images of a life full of things gone wrong.

Broken implies something useless and old,
no longer wanted, tarnished and cold.

But that's not the image of her that I see,
not the image of her she's revealed to me.

Yes, I understand the pieces of pain,
senseless events with nothing to gain.

Every event that comes from her past
is just like a piece of crooked edged glass.

Each single piece could be happy or sad,
could mean something joyful or terribly bad.

But, each little piece is personally unique
like the marks that are found on a precious antique.

Breaks and marks that show she's alive
from the good and bad things she had to survive.

So, like a window of beautiful stained glass
kaleidoscope colors reflecting her past.

The pieces all join in the image I see
of a sweet lovely woman so amazing to me.

Dedicated to my mother for all the struggles she's been thru lately.