Sarah Reichert - Divine Struggle

Colorado poet Sarah Reichart shows how kinetic and arduous the search for faith can be with her poem “Divine Struggle”. “‘Divine Struggle’ is a poem I wrote in workshop last year, when combining celestial concepts with the fragile nature of humanity, and how we falter, fall, and reemerge,” Sarah told The Dewdrop.

Divine Struggle

Begins the darkness
a hole left in the sheet of night
from some one fallen
this bright star so high
a celestial body
sees now only a crater
of missing dirt
the grave it made
upon landing
knees scraped
and grunting hunger
for above ground glades
new air to breathe
reprieve
from the doubt that
knocked it
out of the sky to land
too hard, so hard
considers staying
burying oneself
a body returned to the unforgiving cycle
but all dawns must follow
all nights
and the soft pink glass dome
overhead
speaks of hope
hope, hope numbs the swollen skin
the broken branches that reach
like roots
above ground
and hope the tender bandage that slings
its broken heart close to the chest
and reaches bloodied fingers
to the top crest of rock
where warmth of another star
unburied
sets this body
back on its path
long and winding
ever faltering, ever hoping
to the heavens

Sarah Reichert

Sarah Reichert is a poet and novelist. She is the Director of Writing Heights Writers Association and an avid hiker. Reichert lives in Colorado with her family and her rescue animals. You can find out more at her website: www.sarahreichertauthor.com