I See Your Pain

By Ann Weems
Searching for Shalom
​Resources for Creative Worship

I see your pain
    and want to banish it
        with the wave of a star,
but have no star.

I see your tears
    and want to dry them
        with the hem of an angel’s gown,
but have no angel.

I see your heart fallen to the ground
    and want to return it
        wrapped in cloths woven of rainbow,
but have no rainbow.

God is the One
    who has stars, and angels and rainbows,
And I am the one
    God sends to sit beside you
        until the stars come out
            and the angels dry your tears
                and your heart is back in place,
                    rainbow blessed.