2 poems about the will of God


Last Will and Testament

My will
Then yours

I mess things up
Then turn to you

It’s a formula
I guess

Like knowing what I want Scripture to say
Then going to it

Shaking the Magic 8-Ball
Many times
Until it says
What I want it
To say

Doesn’t make much of a God of you
Which is a really stupid way
To think and act
Before a God

But you withhold
It seems
Act in return
With anger that is intimate
And telling
In that way

Though sometimes in the actual storm
That no one saw coming
As a penalty
And sign


Remembering at Last

I’m tired

I want
To write some
More
Without a thing to say
Meaning I want
To write
And have nothing
To say

That God is good
And loves you so much
That God is true
In being real
And being faithful
Perfectly
For you

Well
Out of nothing
That is a great deal
And the great deal about the Lord
Is simply to believe
And that is all

Something called grace
Free and easy
(always free
sometimes not easy)
Does the rest
And we shall meet
Where love has made a place for us
Just outside of Eden
With the angel
This time
Setting down the sword
Letting the fire go
To let us in


C L Couch


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