An awakening
when childhood’s
magical night
of unseen causes
(except for the riveting,
sparkling, sprinkled few)
enters the rosy glow
of prescient beginnings,
of penetrating, life-sculpting
personal experience of God,
an adolescence through maturity
leading to eternity.
first published in St. Anthony’s Messenger
also published in PICTURE HEALING Chapbook
©2002 Bonnie Manion