We've Come Full Circle

This isn't Scarlequain, but I had to share it.  I attended the Senior Worldview class today for the first time, and pretty much all of my friends are there.  Some of them were even in my freshman worldview class oh so long ago, and one in particular inspired one of my favorite poems that I've written, Through the Stained Glass Window, which I wrote in freshman worldview.  Now, nearly 4 years later, we're together again, same topic, same professor.  But we're older, wiser (we hope), and have experienced so much.  Looking over at me today in class, she mouthed, "Creasy...we've come full circle."  And instantly I was inspired.  Here is the product of that inspiration.  Enjoy!

Circular Stained Glass

To Michelle, in honor of the full circle our college experience has undergone.

A tribute to things come full circle,

Most often falls short of the mark,

Set in stone in the literary canon.

The reflection in your eyes no less stark;

A twinkle dimmed, skin leathered with a dose of tannin,

The innocence of the windows to your soul tainted: stained.

The clear glass of the past colored with pain,

But artfully patterned in a beautiful shape.

We have grown so far from our first class,

We loved people, we have laughed and dealt with hate,

And all this contributed to the new stained glass.

From being inspired by a pair of eyes,

To an ever-shifting inspiration of Poetry,

The sought-after goal has a new prize,

A new Face, a new salary, and a new maturity,

And the progress, though at times extremely woeful,

Has made our eyes a work of glorious Art/

This new phase of Life brings a new serenity.

And even when the way is hard, and perhaps we part,

Remember the Stained Glass, the prize:

And covet something more than the temporal:

Covet one more look into His Eyes.