Along the Way: A Little Book of Poems

“Where did you learn to kiss like that?”
I asked as my stomach started to flip flop
and a warm feeling surged all through me.

I am waiting, longing, for the fullness
of God to invade my being.
I thirst for the livingness of the Eternal

No matter how far down I reach,
I cannot touch the bottom of my pain.
Like a little boy testing the depth of the water,

I can’t help but think and dream
of the vividness of Heaven …
impinging as it is on this coarse,