to offer to go through it

and how much does the mood affect the day
and it’s the other
way
around
how much the day affects the mood

we wake into something
after all
the attitude
the realities we carry
then
come new hours and could be restful
though we’ll apply
our contemporary value of
busyness

to show our worth and get our pay

could
be another day
that might require countercultural
even
a resistance
one by one and could be
a movement
call
it faith
or church
to grow

that creation is profit enough
Blake’s energy as
eternal
delight

electric belief through spirit
with believe in what and who is made
and
consider smallest with
the occasional huge
way to love

as God is love

and
yes
there are the hard parts
the world sometimes is not only vain but
tries what it decides
must be
the time to kill

another’s
spirit
take a life
call the war a victory costing many
for the few
much
for a little

same time to raise
sacrifice
as
service
for the soldier
for
the parent
and the children all around
as all are children
in
a learning state
and so inexorably to grow and change
if
not stopped
short
and transfer students go
to God

but here for us here
we
make our choices
study maybe and instinctively
apply

speed citations
fearsome courts
war crimes

loneliness
failure
even to breathe less
so to have yet
want
to have

and having’s good
it’s the bending to change into
unrecognizable
except
as
satiation

even though God invented pleasure
and offers joy

and
yes
by faith

that’s all
well
not all

but believe in God and live by love
understanding and applying
that
love is practical
and strong
and makes mistakes
and can open to repentance and
to making up
with
everyone
involved

which might lift prayer
as a resource when something’s unreachable
and
yet some repair
required
somehow

which is love
too
strong and practical
available at no cost
whomever
on Earth might say there’s cost
beyond
grace provided everywhere
and
always
and our own will and energy invested

God is love
we should believe
and try love
too

there
that’s it or enough for now
for
now

c l couch


[all the nows counting and piling toward eternity]

“Energy is eternal delight.”  Attributed aphorism (if not axiom), William Blake.

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Santiago, Chile