Traces of God

On days like this
I wake to feel God
between the rhythms of my aching heart
in the heaviness of my foot steps
sliding down the curves of my face.
On days like this
my inner eye is
washed clean
and another star is born
in the expanse of the universe within me.
On days like this
I feel all the prayers I know
dancing on my heart
moving within the breaths
that rush in and out of my lungs.
On days like this
when I awake from sadness
I know the courage I must have
for just as God is in the lightness of happiness
so is He in the darkness of sadness
and both shall pass
leaving traces of Him.