Wings of a Hen

Wings of a Hen


Just to nestle here

Neath your outstretched wings

And to leave a while

All the push and shove

For the fox is near

For disastrous things

And would kill the hen

And would quench the love.



But you take your place

Come what may you say

With your shelter calm

Not with tooth or claw.

And you shield me through

The tumultuous day

Though such harmlessness

Seems to some a flaw.



(Luke 13: 34)