Make No Mistake
We (whoever) call
God’s love (three syllables)
Agape (since there is a
two-syllable word, meaning
surprised)
A love that is perfected in creation
And sacrifice
So much God could have done instead
But made all this instead
We might wonder from the pit
Why bother?
Where there is evil,
And even on a good day there are
Mistakes?
And if God can make whatever
Or whomever, why not
In fact make puppets?
Then we wouldn’t screw up so much
We wouldn’t even own our strings
No chance to break them
Or the world, a periaktos
Upon which we’d perform
Rotating scenes, awaiting the mechane
Deus ex machina
To fix anything, though nothing
Would go wrong
C L Couch
Photo by Umut YILMAN on Unsplash
clcouch123 
November 12, 2019 at 3:35 am
An interesting piece. Godly and brotherly love and the fact we as humans all screw things in life up. At least I think so, and I think you say too. In writing I’ve read to avoid deus ex machina as much as possible. That despite its use in Greek or ancient theatre, in life things do not automatically or rightly end as they should. But I agree that sometimes it would be much less difficult if we just let God in the background move us how we should be moved. That we could just depend on his grace. I wish I could do this more, do better, as I think you note would be better for all. Then, it seems such a simple thing to let go and have done, yet it’s so difficult to do. To give and let go — let the play of life be sorted out by God or the gods for some.
November 12, 2019 at 4:41 pm
Deus ex machina continues to be overused I guess because it’s so comforting. Everything is awful, then something clobbers everything to make it better. Oh, well. I think your thoughts on how better to let God take part in our lives is really encouraging. We do our best, we let go then, we depend on grace. This (these) would make a great corollary if not a sequel to the poem.
November 22, 2019 at 10:56 pm
I think sometimes all
We have is grace. But, I enjoy your thoughts as always 🙂