Networking

Networking

   With tiny stitches like a quilt,
   invisible to the naked eye
   but infinite in number,
   the net is woven

   silently
   it winds round you,
   this unseen web of prayer;
   a gossamer circle,
   its strands shining and strong.

   Spun
   as with the quilt,
   by many anonymous hands,
   a gift of strangers

   to buoy you.
   lift you up
   above the abyss
   of pain and desolation.

   Rest easy n your silken net:
   You are not alone.

--Mildred Collier

Philadelphia

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