THE WORLD HELD IN YOUR HANDS
By Lawrence Hall
Word count: 93
Rating: G
Summary: A poetic description of the Rosary.
A little bead between your fingers slips
And then another, and another yet
Linked with a bit of cord, in corde✽ linked
Like planets all in rhythm with their sun
Each bead is our created world in small:
Each ocean a baptism, each island a hope
Each wind a prophecy whispering to
An exiled people waiting for the dawn
And for your fiat mihi† to that Light
A little bead between your fingers waits
✽In corde – “in the heart,” from “In corde Iesu,” In the heart of Jesus”
†St. Luke 1:38