Moving Day

When there are empty rooms inside

that fears attempt to occupy,

disturbing, disrupting and tossing about,

leaving havoc in their wake,

the soft and gentle coloring of butterflies

stop them at the door.

Like silent sentinels,

they wait and watch and know

the peace that lives within

and moves without.

2006

Unseen Birds

When the icy fingers of cold indifference

grasp us by the throat,

stifling our voices,

the warmth and breadth of human understandings

melt away their tight grip,

replacing them with sounds of music,

heard and unheard

like birds unseen but always there.

Margery Layton
2006

Safe Passage

You and I are on a covered bridge..

one filled with warmth and light,

Aglow with faith and love all clothed

in soft-lit rainbow bright.

Within this cozy covered place,

this spacious, open way,

we are passageways for others

who seek a bright, new day.

Margery Layton

8-97

(for Mariel)

Glow

From the cold and barren wastelands
windswept, empty and lifeless,
comes the finest light --
first flickering,
then glowing with steady resolve,
growing with intensity
until
opening up the warm-lit ways
where love and peace prevail.
Margery Layton
2006