John

This picture was taken summer 2009. This is an art installation by Kathleen Hull, part of Uncommon Art which was a series of different artists creating scenes in the outdoors in and around Wolfville. I see tears falling down, or maybe a screen hiding a dimension beyond what we know. What do you see?

You are my father, grandfather, uncle, friend, brother, son
You prayed to be free and light and floating

But sometimes your darkness won;

Yachanan (God is gracious) was your name before

You are the Lennon of the Beatles, tragic genius nevermore;

You are pure as John the Baptist who gave his life for God

And John the Apostle too, to whom Jesus gave a nod;

You are chivalrous and caring as the Order of St. John

But you can be querulous and difficult and hard to get along;

You are open and uncanny

You are Ivan, Juan and Giovanni;

You are the prickly pear with the sweetest juice inside

But there is a cost for you Sean, and sometimes you must hide;

You are Johann and Iain and we're never sure who's who

But once you set your sights on love your aim is always true;

Ultimately you are too good to live in this hardscrabble place

But you are in us, through us and around us

And you fill our lives with Grace.