We are the Harvest by Linette Rabsatt
We are the Harvest
If I am the harvest
Then you are the fields
If we are the harvest
the youth are the seeds
I stand today
As your harvest
Because you invested
Your love and nurture in me
Watering me with love
Fertilizing me with encouragement
Pruning me by admonishing me
When I got too out of sorts
And weeding out the tares
With your consistent and solid prayers
If I am the harvest
Then you are the bees
If we are the harvest
the youth are the seeds
they are priceless gems
filled with God-given
talent and energy
to carry on our legacy
they are the seeds to
be kept safe
to be kept nurtured
with our love
encouragement
admonishment
and consistent prayers
so that in future years
they can repeat
If we are the harvest
Then you are the fields
If we are the harvest
the youth are the seeds
© Linette Rabsatt
Linette Rabsatt is a Virgin Islands poet with roots in the British Virgin Islands and United States Virgin Islands. She began writing in 1996. Her work is available in her Kindle book, Be Inspired: Poems by Linette Rabsatt, and on her blog, Words of Ribbon. Linette writes to inspire the world with her words.
Thank you so much for sharing my poem. It was written for the annual harvest celebration at the Belle Vue Methodist Church in the Virgin Islands (British).
ReplyDeleteYou have come a long way since I knew you in the UVI classroom. I enjoy your writings. Wish I could take a little credit but I don't think you learned this in my accounting class. Keep up the good work.
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