Seasons’ Reasonings
(or is it reason’s seasonings)

What do I really want
To say today
And shall I break
From
My agenda
Even of pressing needs
For aren’t they all
Seeming-
Exigent

I want
To say
	Simple and plain
	I guess
	As folk
As others
Say
And it’s
God loves you
And
While God loves you
In
The strength and practicality
Of love

Without the pink and lace
So much
Until it’s time
For these

In my land
After the groundhog wakes
And the better President
Is born
And then

Another tussle for
Too many
With
In fact
Pink isolation
Like
Too-often
Christmas green
While all of it
We know
As blue

(though
yes
Elvis’s Christmases
are blue)

Until and in between
These times
That is
Most of the time
And
Yes
And even then
(the betweens of in-betweens)

God loves you

God before us
God behind
Us
And God beneath
With God above
And also
On
Our way is
God beside us

And is there more to say
With hope of heaven
Interesting
But unknown
‘Til it should be happening
And
It hasn’t happened

Though love has occurred
And on all sides
Of time
And will
Exists
And does go with us
Inside
Outside
Everywhere
There’s where
And love
You know
The reason for creation

For creating anything
We know

C L Couch


(Saint Patrick’s Breastplate is cited; sorry, the pun of the title and subtitle, I imagine, only works in English)

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