(x = space)

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Talking and Walking

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Now talk to God

At last

Waiting

With all respect

Withholding judgment

‘Til we’ve had a word

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This is right

And this is wrong

And I guess

I knew that

Though not always

The particulars

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Who can see

All consequences

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And I have other questions

That I mean

Less rhetorical

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How do I do it all

How do I bring it home

Really

How do I live free will

And obey things

All together

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How do I think

And love

How do I formulate

A plan for life

Then wait for its

Dissolution

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How do I say

This is good

And this is not

When complex understanding

Mixes everything

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How do I live

In this old world

The human part

That has such hate

And hides its greed

Inside an

Annihilative plan

That is at work

So far from me

With those who have

Stolen the riches

Of the planet

And seek to dupe

All malleable

And thinking people

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Where is the love

Inside the hate

And how do I live

With both

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That is

How do I live with who I am

Who I was made

Like everyone

To be

And to be

Well

Me

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How I live

Lord

I do not know

Too many exits

Or rest stops on the way

They are inviting

Too many paths

It seems

Narrow and wide

And in-between

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Which way

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The world is too complex

For the simplicity of love

And faith

Maybe of hope

As well

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I clang my cymbal

Except I don’t

I live in quiet

Desperation

Sometimes

With the age

Also frustration

Remaking tiny parts

Of my world

To say

That’s better

There is hope for the rest

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And is there

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The world made by you

We are in your image

To look like

Dare I ask

To act like you

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Are our actions

Part of our likeness

In your image

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We make things

I guess

We destroy them

Too

And you have ordered things

Destroyed

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Nothing lasts that we make

And is it practice

Then

As in

This all being a rehearsal

For the real show

That is

The real experience

To come

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I should add question marks

For grammar

Though there are so many

Plus implied

And beyond me

And I think you know

Where are the pauses

Where I do take a breath

Before the next

Thing

That I wonder

You are patient

Except when you’re impatient

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Well

Maybe love is complex

Too

Or maybe its simplicity

Weaves through the complex

Showing a tapestry

In wisdom

Or in time

Your time

For all to know

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Who knows

While we live

And wait on Earth

What secrets

You might keep

Or is there a real truth

That you keep none

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Love and faith and hope

There are precedents

And these might be lasting

One link into another

Through the ages

And tomorrow

And in next moments

After this

Amen

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