Poem September 24, 1979 Issue

The only power

BARBARA DIX HENDERSON

Know all the time:
God is the only power.

        Today may bring a multitude
            of little lesser powers.
                Petty officialdom would try
            to capture and enclose the innocent
            in a steel brace of cold authority.

But you are not a minion, not a pawn;
you have a place of refuge from the storm.
     Look, then, to God and draw upon
                                     the source
         of energy, of clarity and force:
One Principle supplies not only you,
    but all those others surely need it too.

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