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When Great Pain
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If God exists
And God does exist
And if God loves
And God does love
And if God has power
And God has the most
Then how
Then why
I don’t know,
Why are things so messed up
So screwed up
So damnably awful?
We could ask this and these
On calmer days as well
It’s fair
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All things of substance are good
Really
You move toward evil and the devil
Then you move toward nothingness
And nothing
These will increase, day by day,
Until that’s all
(so much worse than Porky Pig)
There is nothing
Not black
(black is good)
But a void
Out of which God has created
But not us
Nothing we have will last
Except as legacy
Then memory
Then
(let a couple of beats go by)
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We are on the side of flesh
Who value flesh
(I am ignorant about
mortification)
And what’s inside
Flesh is not bad
It is ours and was made for us
By the true owner
Of the universe
Who keeps with perfection
From the smallest moment that we know
And smaller
To the next
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And what of pain?
Why is there pain?
How can there be a God of pain?
Well, there is
Who is the God of love
Who promises alleviation
And for you
Family
And friends and neighbors, too
For a broken
And a splitting-further world
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Pain is a stake
(and stake)
It is on the table of the world
It is not ours
Though we can wield it
The way we can
Wield healing and solutions,
Too
These are realities and means
And we have so much to do with them
For now
We can move with
Pretty much anything we want
Inside
Outside
Toward ourselves
Toward our neighbors
Toward the world
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Persist
Sometimes is all there is
When pain is great
The next moment
And the next
One moment
Two moments
Enough accomplishment
Until everything’s incorporated
And we stand up
And move
Not move on as in forget
Move on as in everything’s a part
Of us now
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And I know
It’s hard
To say we’re not alone
When we are alone
Without the peace of it
But we’re not
A lesson for the speaker, too
We’re not
There is companionship
And company
For life
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