Not Enough

I give you all I have, O Lord,
the wine that filled my cup,
the dregs beyond the drops I poured—
but it was not enough.

I give you all that I can be,
the stuff I'm knitted of,
unravelled all the threads of me—
but it was not enough.

Enough to make a good return
for all that you have done.
The world, the flesh, the devil spurned—
but it was not enough.

I broke my heart, give you the bits,
the shards of all my love,
for there is nothing left but this.

O child, there never was.

Birdoswald roman fort on Hadrian’s Wall. “This case shows something of the range of pottery used by the Roman soldiers whilst serving on Hadrian’s Wall. Different types of pot had different uses in the same way that we have metal pans, ceramic plates and china mugs. Like today, the army in the Roman period had military contracts with certain suppliers. Some pottery manufacturers in Britain took advantage of this system and would have made large profits.” By Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net)., CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33765158