The Untold Story

The ink that prints on my papers gentles heart

Stroking and filling the page with question marks

Waiting for me to tell it what to write

Can we connect? It asked

Are you ready to pick up the mat and walk?

When is your true story going to start?

It needs something that grabs the reader’s heart

It wants to inspire and be inspired, but I can't.

The ink wants to know, the ink asks

Question marks after question marks

It wants stories that are untold

Filled with action that is bold.

Why do you ask me to write about a dream that hasn't been lived?

An action that turned to an illusion

Faith without work

Work without faith

A disconnected life that is hard to write in cursive

A life that is illusive 

Too many periods and    gaps   between letters

Too many dots....and comas, , , in between words

They all end with question marks???

Though you have the answer

You refused to give

Though you have the passion you refused to live

The cries of your heart you ignore

The pages you kept filling with meaningless words.

Instead I want to write...

How you find meaning to your life

How you picked up the mat

How you inspired and walk the talk

How you stopped being crippled

How you stayed still and listened

How you served others without limits

How you lived your life with no regrets.

"Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.  One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”

“Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.”

Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up the mat and walk" At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked. " John 5:1-9

Here is a question for you and I " Do you want to get well?"

Credit : Art by Bereket Mamo