Laughing
“The One who sits enthroned in heaven is laughing.” – Psalm 2:4
At times the world is far too much with me
_(And I, of course, too much with it).
I wander in a peaceful anarchy—
_The only peace I can acquit.
I fear I don’t repent so much as fret,
__And pray my life might yet
At very least of some amusement be,
_A giggle in Your Perfect Plan;
So once I wake up in eternity
_Before Your Throne to finally stand,
That I might claim, as wheat is freed from chaff,
__At least I made You laugh.
Jeffrey Essmann is an essayist and poet living in New York. His poetry has appeared in numerous magazines and literary journals, among them Agape Review, America Magazine, Dappled Things, the St. Austin Review, U.S. Catholic, Grand Little Things, Heart of Flesh Literary Journal, and various venues of the Benedictine monastery with which he is an oblate. He is editor of the Catholic Poetry Room page on the Integrated Catholic Life website.
