Marianne Lyon

Puzzle

Marianne Lyon

My whole dazed life I implored begged wailed for saints ecstatic gurus to awaken rescue instruct how to live teach me to write a psalm that knits pain into comfort shawl draft a map endow guide me from dark chasm walk me into enlightenment

Know now I have forfeited precious time drained myself of fortitude believe I have been given another chance today to avow venture trust resurrect myself from the murky quagmire as it presents itself

Have awakened to notion I am a puzzle a breathing box pieces big and small each day one or two emerge some clear others gauzed no instructions but over time a painting begins to brush itself

Now know I am invited to end my stalling estrangement Mark Nepo a wise poet says the earth began as a dish shattering like you dear reader I am nudged to fiercely gently tenaciously glue my pieces together

Marianne Lyon has been a music teacher for 43 years. After teaching in Hong Kong, she returned to the Napa Valley and has been published in various literary magazines and reviews including Ravens Perch, TWJM Magazine, Earth Daughters, Tipton poetry Journal and Indiana Voice Journal. She was nominated for the Pushcart prize in 2017. She is a member of the California Writers Club and an Adjunct Professor at Touro University in California.