Walk With Humility, by Portly Bard

Stumbling on Light, by Lorette C. Luzajic (Canada) 2025

Walk With Humility

These are the footpaths of
parallel souls
similar, seeking their
separate goals,

knowing that moments of
need unforeseen
loom as insistence that
strength intervene,

gift to be given by
angel ordained
bridging a crisis by
balance sustained

felt as the glisten of
summoning faith
hollow but shimmering
seen as its wraith.

These are the waves as they
shattered on rock
breaking complexity
gone from the clock,

lingering vestiges
captured in art
lifeless as pieces of
meaning apart.

This is the legacy
shouldered as bond
history forms with the
future beyond,

journey eternally
passage of hope,
courage entitled to
dream and to cope,

sharing the trial and
error of truth
dimming the innocence
left in our youth,

sterling as wisdom of
peace that regales
failures that billow as
wind in our sails.

This is our destiny.
Wake from our night.
Walk with humility
stumbling on Light

seen as awareness of
infinite Grace
offered and given its
time and its place.

Portly Bard

Portly Bard: Prefers to craft with sole intent...
of verse becoming complement...
...and by such homage being lent...
ideally also compliment.

Ekphrastic joy comes not from praise
for words but from returning gaze
far more aware of fortune art
becomes to eyes that fathom heart.