Amen

Call us a prayer
Say we are a psalm
Say our laughter is praise song
Our tears a holy water
Beloved and blessed Sis
Well and witnessed Love
Ours is the chorus of a hymn
Where one chord is
Thank you
And another is
Yes and amen
By blood or chosen bond
In the trenches and the peaks
From valley to rolling river
We journey through
And count it all joy
Count it all evidence of living
From my grateful mouth
I pull the ribbon of a poem
And bend a word into a bow
We are the gift
We are the endless offering
Our love is biblical
As any parable of courage
Of betrayal of grit or grace
And this is my testimony
That in the light of my sister's love
I see the truth of redemption and know
Why even the saviour of the world
Journeyed with friends
And still
It was a woman who waited
Who saw first and believed