Rainbow Weather

I feel the shift coming

Before I see the change

The change coming

Toward me, From behind

Pressing on the back of my heart

Where I carry all the

Ache of uncertainty

All the love & grief for all the suffering

The suffering beyond my control,

The pain body for the world

I feel the sun filling, slipping through

cracks in the density of rain,

Where the light & dark dance

Together, Casting rainbows

Much beyond my gaze

Touching down in places

I glimpse in awe, yet

I can never inhabit

I feel the shift coming

The rainbow making weather

Coming toward me

From behind, as if the Hand of God

Places her palm

On the back of my heart

Squarely between my shoulders

Acknowledging my compassion

Reminding me of my infinite smallness

Yet assuring me that I too

Make rainbows—

In my casting of prayers for the planet

Pressing out from the back of my heart

As I feel the love filling, slipping through

Cracks in the density of pain

Where the light & the dark dance

Much beyond my understanding

Touching down in places

I glimpse in my reverence,

Yet I can never inhabit

I feel the shift coming

For the world even though

I may never live to see the change

I will rise each day

To make more rainbows…

Together,

May we make rainbow weather