The Contract
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Sabbath starts,
Tomorrow another,
And a vigil for Sunday observances
This time must be important
And there are traditions that,
Sabbath-like,
Will pray throughout the hours every day
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When it passed the first time,
Creation had begun
Everything in orbit,
Even what looks happenstance
Like comets or
A train of meteors
They circle everything
Everything is circling
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Sabbath-time
In certain lore
Is that it’s our time
A gift of rest whose precedent
Is God
The word that spoke into ex nihilo
Created everything
Then called the host to take
Some easy breathing
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We worship God but
Once a week
And there are those who
Go for more
Somehow, God is prodding
And is waiting
Inside the box
And pushing from outside
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Remembering it is God
Who is the source of everything
In motion
God can take rejection
Bear denial
Will not disappear
For our repudiation
Will wait inside the box
But has other places
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For us,
What shall we say?
An issue is control
A tissue-thin issue
God has rendered thin within
The covenant
We think it means so much
And it does
Sometimes salvation turns upon it,
Though here it is:
A planet is presented to us
And by contract with each other
The terms are simple
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Care for this
There are avatars
He knows his place
Risking it each time
She comes to us
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C L Couch
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Photo by Adolfo Félix on Unsplash
Clean Night
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clcouch123 
August 15, 2020 at 5:17 pm
I agree with you, Christopher, that WordPress can be frustrating at times. I need to take a week’s course on the proper use of block formatting. I miss the Sunday quiet of yesteryear when all the stores were closed and the city was at rest for at least one day a week. I also kinda liked the early Covid days of shut down. But now traffic etc. is just as busy as ever. I like the image of us being Avatars of God. God resides within, despite our best intentions to ignore God.
August 16, 2020 at 10:24 am
The idea of God waiting for us felt so powerful to me, brother. You also poetically amplified the truth that HE will remain, even at times when we forget Him.