The CHILL Poem
This year’s CHILL was designed to help our students become ONE with God and each other. After our first night’s talk by Tony Pingitore, one our junior girls, Cailin Coane, penned this poem during a SOLO time:
Soul –shaper, heart-breaker,
How long before the dark pain ends?
You said you’d fix me, feed me, show me,
Now I’m waiting for your promise to send . . .
When will the healing begin?
Broken, bruised, and battle-weary,
I came to you to heal my soul
But wounds and scars were rediscovered,
Heartache, sorrow left uncovered
Blood and tears drained out fill up my bowl
When will you give me control?
My own hands broke my heart in pieces,
A scattered life worth less than jagged glass
I glued it together, torn and tattered,
Fragile, weak, ripped and shattered
And watched tears fall as it broke again
And so I offered it to you . . .
You tore me up! You smashed me down!
You ground the points into my suffering
But you take my shame and guilt, my story,
Into a mosaic worth your love and glory
And so now it’s my offering . . .
The artist’s hand knows better than
The work of art could ever know
And so now I take my shattered life
And I finally give you control.
Cailin Coane. February 13, 2010

