As I pray this even time sparkling risen boughs of silver maple wave and nod in the gusty breeze between them is a patch of blue sky I read Psalms of merciful forgiveness while tears bedew my eyes unworthy The dove flies over my house and away out she goes into the endless blue distance all of my dust applied to her tail my sins all carried aloft and quickly passing disappear forever with the fading silouhette as onward she goes winging away between the leaning branches of the elms which ever bow to these prevailing winds of my earth bound life