“Service,” New Era, June 1977, 66
Service
Sometimes service days
are hammer-buzz days,
busy, numb days,
times devoid of
surge of joy.
But service days
can redesign
the innermost of you,
tempering
the altitude
of attitudes,
buttressing
for blows,
stockpiling calm
to meet a stress.
Service rendered free and clear
bulwarks brittle bones of wonder,
molds a brick of empathy.