Poem June 30, 2003 Issue

Comfort

Brian Kissock

Shortly after the terrorist bombing of 1998 in Omagh, Northern Ireland, the homeland of the author of this poem, Brian Kissock, recorded these words as a healing response to the grief that followed—including his own for several good friends who were lost in that tragedy.

There is here and there, and everywhere,
A refuge;
A house and habitation;
There is a constant calling to each,
Sean, Samuel, Ruth, Mary.

There is here and there, and everywhere,
A shelter;
Not made with hands,
But high among the peaks,
Whispering stillness.

There is here and now, and evermore,
A Mind;
A Love and a gentling;
There is a peace saying,
Be still, I am, I am that peace.

There is here and there, and everywhere,
A goodness;
A life without blemish,
A way of looking on the world,
Undisturbed.

There is here and now, and evermore,
A rest;
Protection from the storm,
Always hid with Christ,
In God, eternally.

—Brian Kissock

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