Watchers

The mail today contained a letter informing me that as an alumni of Regent College I am to receive a year’s free subscription to Crux—the quarterly journal of Christian thought and opinion they publish.  Things seem to be running a little behind with this publication (as you will see, if you visit the website), but it was a delightful surprise, nonetheless, to receive a few back issues.  This poem is from the Summer 2009 issue:

Watchers

Luci Shaw

Behold the fleck of ant

bearing with frenetic diligence

his large load of crumb

down the long mile of floorboard.

By observation I become

part of an insect's life.  Is he

aware of me?  What thread of vision

links the antic with the observant?

What false criterion of size?

And who is it who, watching me,

whispers Watch for who it is

who watches you?