Bless Each Devotion
Michael T. Young

I think I’m most often mistaken
not about what you need
but just the day and how it will all
fall out, how the morning sun
licks the windowsill with everything
that is about to happen or a starling
swoops through the tree’s lace
and counters that filigree with its own
crosshatching of a life, adding another
dimension our math can’t calculate.
And isn’t that the human condition?—
to be more in the dark than we admit
even to ourselves, mistaking or taking amiss
the moment we arrive into, naked
in every way except that which would help,
not to enter what comes but that
every arrival enters us, so whatever
its name, it echoes what God said
when he called it from the dark.

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Michael T. Young’s Comments

I’m interested in the limits of our various capacities, not only reason, but also memory and imagination. Somewhere and somehow, we need revelation beyond what we know or perhaps even can know by the usual methods. So much of the world around us is beyond our perception and it’s not just dark matter but even daily experiences our brain filters out simply because it’s wired to prevent an overload of too much stimulus.

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