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Look Up?

By September 20, 2014May 2nd, 2017No Comments

Perhaps a part
of You working
what’s pleasing to You
in me
is displeasing
me with all I have
or feel that I have,
so that
so dis…
I don’t know,
disinterested?
disappointed?
disgusted?
disenchanted?
(I think that’s it…)
I’m unfulfilled while
full with it all.
Undo this deceit
that’s clearly failing me
Intimacy is a mist
indicating a shortcoming
indicating a superior flood
showing me I’m short-changed
when I chase it with a
cup,
thirstily seeking quenching
showing me I’m better off
looking for the Spring
(and just ditch the cup…)
There’s all but
to dip, swim, and drink
where there is
true quenching…
Disillusioned and burnt,
can I
(I know I may, but…)
somehow look up?

“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.” C.S. Lewis

Quina Aragon

Quina Aragon

Quina Aragon is an author, speaker, and spoken word artist based in Orlando, Florida. She has written three children’s books—Love Made, Love Gave, and Love Can—and a book for adults, Love Has a Story. Her first fiction book, a novel-in-verse titled If Hurricanes Were Flowers, is set to release in 2027 with InterVarsity Press. Born in Manila and raised in Orlando, Quina is of Filipina, Puerto Rican, and Jamaican descent. As a first-generation child of immigrants, her writing explores identity, migration, and how our personal and cultural stories echo Scripture’s grand narrative. She has helped create projects through her writing, editing, creative vision, teaching, and/or performing for clients like Christianity Today, Vū Virtual Production Studios, YouVersion Bible App, Propel Women, Chasing Justice, Truth's Table, The Gospel Coalition, Ballet 5:8, InterVarsity Press, Bethany House Publishers, Moody Publishers, The Good Book Company, Harvest House, Risen Motherhood, Cru, Proverbs 31 Ministries, Training Leaders International, and many more.

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