Poem July 17, 1978 Issue

Newness now

Barbara Dix Henderson

No dreadful past
or fear of future shock
Can shake unchanging Truth,
the timeless rock,
The basic order of
your conscious being,
Forever with its
love-filled source
agreeing.

Look through the panic,
still the latent dread.
The Christ, the truth,
upholds your sinking head
And lifts your eyes
beyond the nightmare dream.
For see, you never slept
nor lost the beam:
The light in living form—
the glorious you—
Securely conscious
and forever new.

Barbara Dix Henderson

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