Hagar in Beer-sheba, A Good Way Off

Hagar in Beer-sheba, A Good Way Off

Brad Zwiers

Can I be unseen?
Uncreated? Undone? Unwound? Unsung?
Unknit what you have strung together,
unmake me from who I am –
Lord, have mercy and look away.

Unsay that first word you spoke
and unwind my days: a new beginning,
one that waits to begin at all,
and uncalled, rests
like a thought before it becomes a word.

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Brad Zwiers
Poet & Pastor

Brad is a pastor in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he lives with his wife and son. More of his writing is archived at the post calvin.

Photography by Ekaterina Astakhova