Poetry
The Sculptor’s Hands
Do you suppose pain and suffering are actually tools in the hand of our Lord?
Ever shaping and chiseling, cutting like a two-edged sword?
Perfecting and changing us, urging us on, inserting a base, he can build upon.
Reshaping our minds towards new frontiers and forcing our gaze past the edge of the mirror?
And maybe this re-awakening reveals our flaws and short comings.
Faults we thought were hidden or gone, are now transformed, being skillfully hewn.
Yet the relentless artist hammers on, chipping away huge chunks of stone,
and oh how it hurts to be reborn. We feel bruised and bloodied, pounded and torn;
all the while crying, and always we mourn.
I wonder does the sculptor wince when his chisel breaks the rock?
Does he secretly wish he didn’t have to smite it quite so hard?
Or rather does he know each loving blow reflects his heart;
and must be thrown so he can turn this lump of stone into his art?
So, what proves to be the end result , what fruit can he now show?
A beautiful masterpiece? a perfect form? A David or Venus de Milo?
Rarely perhaps a Saint is revealed, but more often his sculptures are like me and like you.
But please think not that we’re “all” we can be, and “all” we can be is now shown.
For we, you see, are unfolding effigies, incomplete 'til he takes us home.
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