a color poem [the t-shirt poem]

Well, I'll say it briefly here as well. I feel like 2014 is the year of stretching me & moving me into things that fall squarely on the list of "never in a million years [at least not if I can help it]". I'm not only driving tomorrow, I'm driving a box truck. Not just to my usual stops, to 2 extra stops on top of it. I'm not really sure I want to know how this year is going to end. Seriously. I got to meet people this year that I think are way cool. And it's only April! Sounds like my birthday weekend will be packed. 2 hikes in as many days. [THIS I could get used to] At least if all things work out ok. Jamie posted on twitter about TWLOHA's colors. Since I had just got back from The Well [which was awesome. Not surprised that it was. I SO needed it.] @ LWCC. I took his post & rhymed my response. So here is the poem that grew out of that...
The Colors of Hope, the colors of conversation
[or the t-shirt poem]

Black & white & blue

The colors

Of me & you

Holding

Onto hope

Together

As we ride out

The storms

Wearing t-shirts

Using them

As keys

To unlock prisons

Ours

Others

Shirts

Who knew

The doors

They would open

The words

That were

locked behind them?

The breaking down

Of old little boxes

That people

Were never meant

To be put in

Phrases

To start a rebellion

With

The chance

To not be alone

To not feel alone

All starting

With a boy

[several]

A girl

A story

A shirt

And

Words of courage

Showing

As they say

And wear it

That

LOVE

IS THE MOVEMENT

RESCUE

IS POSSIBLE

The bleeding

Really can stop

That it is

Not only possible

But very worth it

To

Write

Love

On Her

Arms

By b.e. noll

[thx Jamie, & friends]

Hopefully I won't get out of work too late or get back too late for my class tonight.
Oh, & you can hear Jamie's interview from Relevant magazine @ 2pm today. Unless you will be "unavoidably detained" like me.

May His grace drip from your fingers,
B