Peter Blackburn's Poems
Themes | Alphabetical List | Home

Dare to Be...

"Dare to be a Daniel!" -
stirring words to sing,
challenging
to stand alone
in fighting
for the King.

"Dare to be a Dorcas"?
words we never sang,
and yet...
as hard a task is done
by those who give
their lives to care
for every other one.

Dare to see the Dorcas
or the Daniel
over there.
The light has flickered,
almost gone -
and I’ve been asked to care...
to summon
what I do not know,
respecting
what I cannot see,
to let the hidden person
bound and weathered
be set free.


© Peter J Blackburn 2001
Back to Service poems