Fortune

Photo by Gabriel Jimenez on Unsplash

A Poem by Chelsea Fraser

We dig.

We trust the earth to care for our dead.

We leave them with her, from whom we came,

To return to the earth, and its riches.

She holds a fortune vast,

Endowed by God as home and hallow

For each short life—

                                         but breath of God

Is not so composed.

                                         and we are also of that

Breath.

                                He holds infinite whole,

A never-lack too great to be called wealth,

For wealth is of this matter held

Within our good, rich earth—

                                                         But He is more.

                                                                                           And so we also rise.

Chelsea Fraser is a wife, mother, poet, musician, and arts director. She believes that the lived experience is art, that creation is art, and that we were made to participate in making beauty. Chelsea seeks to use the arts to build disciples of Jesus, and her work pays attention to the natural world which God has made, seeking to connect it to human moments. Chelsea holds a BA in English Literature and an MA in Organizational Communication. She has been published in Ekstasis Magazine.