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Like a lamb

This semester I took a class on C.S. Lewis, my favorite Christian author of all time, and we had a final project at the end of the course which could take any format or genre: we just had to compose something creative that related to C.S. Lewis or his works in some way. My project took the form of five poems written in response to some of my favorite quotes from five of the books we read over the course of the semester. Here is one of my favorites, written in response to a quote from Perelandra, the second book in Lewis' theologically charged sci-fi trilogy.
“Be comforted, small one, in your smallness. He lays no merit on you. Receive and be glad. Have no fear, lest your shoulders be bearing this world.” -Malacandra
Like a lamb
Zipping across a sunny hillside
Emanating joy with its every bold, childlike movement
Constantly elated by the grass beneath its hooves
Despite never finding any tundra to compare it to
Constantly awed by the glory of the sunshine
Despite never knowing darkness
It runs without tiring, explores without aching
Delighting in butterflies dancing in the sunbeams
Singing without worrying about the pitch of its tune
And when a Voice
Calls it home
It rushes with vigor greater still
Bolting toward the shepherd who carried it back to this very pasture
After it had gotten lost in a cloudy wasteland
Bleating for help but wandering in the wrong direction
As tears filled its young eyes
He picks the lamb up now as he picked it up then
And carries it home
Pierced hands gently submerged in warm wool
Dan Tully is a freshman concentrating in Behavioral Decision Sciences and sent us this post from Brooklyn, NY.