Aloof

I saw your face many times through my life
always through changing eyes
without involvement or expectations
without faith in your heart

Lives like smooth ribbons woven between
some barely touching, some intertwined
some loose, unraveling, in shreds
some never cross never touch at all

And you isolated, of lofty mind
always beyond what I might feel
still give the gift of inspiration
but never any hope at all

Let God be my hope and my only friend
My giver of time or loss
and burn away the brokenness
save whatever's left...

Let me find my inspirations
in people and places with hope
Where God is God and all are welcome
to peacefully exist