For Martha...

We want you because depth is rare,
And beauty is needed in order to live the truth.
Because we have a world that is missing a heart,
And my neighbors are selling their souls.
Everyone knows that depth is not needed
When your life begins with you.
But as for us?...We still believe in mystery,
In wine, long talks, and reading late at night.
So go where you're needed,
But land where you're loved.
Grow roots and take wing and follow the beat
Of something good and different and right.
Join with these angels in mending the pain,
For surely more tears will fall.
But we'll cry them and catch them
And anoint this world with a salty teardrop grace.
We want you because you are becoming you,
And we are less than we without that.