Ache

The burden of knowledge is great

You say "Look" but I do not want to see 

But what I see I say and it comes at a cost

The cost is grand

Speaking Truth 

It makes me untrustworthy

Why is that so?

Ignorance would be blissful

To not know

To have nothing to say

To be simple

Easy

Non-threatening

Not me

"Pray," they say

But it does not settle my soul

Injustice

Unfairness

Exclusion

I cannot stand to watch

To stand watch

It is easier now

Standing on the outside

But to watch others be pushed out

My own pushed

On the outside

Because they belong to me

Their ache is my ache

Their hurt is my heart

When they strive

I put myself in their path

I take the blow

I become the culprit

Because I see

What they cannot see

And though they hear

The Truth

They do not understand it

This broken world

The broken life

We broken people

We hurt

We hurt each other

I ache

My people ache

Your people ache

All of creation aches

For You

In our pain 

We wound

Wandering towards Home

But not really knowing the way

Longing for Your voice

So hard to hear

I wish that I did not see

Did not speak

Did not ache

But even more

I wish it for them

But it is not to be

For the longing is real

We are far from Home

Travel is wearying

The road is too long

Ache

Diana DePriest

© August 21, 2014