Love Poem: Then I Saw Her -2
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Written by: Robert A. Dufresne

Then I Saw Her -2

I looked away and tried to shake her. I can't really describe what I  felt in her presence. In 
fact,  if it was a feeling I was experiencing, it felt great .  But there she was anyway…smiling 
and kind of bubbly I guess you could say... right above and just behind the priest….kind of 
floating I guess.  I kept pretending she wasn’t there, looking away and thinking of the person 
I was praying for even while feeling giddy because she WAS there and  
the priest obviously couldn’t see her……… She would flit to that person I was saying a prayer 
for in my mind’s eye and above the picture formed in my mind of that person,.. spread her 
hands palms up in an outward position while smiling gaily as if to say ..okay we’ve got her 
covered!  But she never said a word. Somehow she made me feel wonderful. I did not know 
who she was. I just knew she was dressed as a nun and she was a lively bubbly, loving 
person. My priest friend was still reading and a couple of times he looked up at me and 
asked me if anything was wrong… I said no but couldn’t help smiling and did not want to tell 
him what was happening. I thought he would think I fell off my rocker on this fine Easter day. 
I felt sorry for him trying to help me by reading this for me and here I was lost in 
an adventure of sorts with this nun! So I said a Hail Mary for him. Quick as a wink 
she “floated” above him, spread her palms out, kissed him on top of his head and looked at 
me again with that fun loving smile! I thought I would bust with glee. I laughed out 
loud. My poor pastor looked up at me and again inquired. I thought I would chance telling 
him. 
     It did not seem to surprise him a bit. I told him I had to go home. All this while I was 
overwhelmed with an unmistakable feeling or knowledge that this nun was going to be with 
me forever and wherever I went. I was even trying to plan ahead how to act in my everyday 
life with her keeping me in such joyful ....