Knocking on Heaven’s Door

Please forgive me for coming so far and knocking on Your door

By Dieter Meyri on iStock (image licensed by author)

I knelt in a field
of bright green
on my blackest day

A flowered mountain meadow
flowing ever upward above the trees,
stretching to the last of the season’s snow,
now gray and scrabbled,
hidden under the tallest pines,
my place where I…