my brother-in-law's poem

Found this on my computer - I'd saved all the pages of an old blog I'd started in 2003 and closed down 5 years later, and this poem was included:

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

My brother-in-law has cancer and I got an email from him today with a beautiful poem he's written:

   The Long Waiting

   We are the longest longing
                   an echo without end

   We are the greatest sighing
                   alone without a friend

   We are the ever crying
                  O God whom will you send

   We are the restless waiting
                 for much that is unseen

   We are the inward yearning
                  for what surely may have been

   We are the little dying
                in the loss of every dream

   And yet we are the hoping
                 that springs eternal true

   We are the anxious praying
                   that has our eyes on you

   We are the grateful receiving                   
                   that fills our hand anew.