our books of hours

God is love
and is it
tiring

and is
the rock of faith
for
metaphor

the lion
first of Judah

and shall we believe what the figures
shall be pointing
toward
as we consider openly
without agenda first
‘til
we go there to find
what might
be our purpose in our tasks
that is
fair and openly

which is a matter of the mind and for a metaphor
the heart
though we accept the source
and
then the spirit
that is an entity and real
pointing
only toward creator
who
is the love
somehow
for
real

and this dance
then
between the thing and its referral
which is the contest
of
a poem
and what the poem itself might indicate
which
is what
to know and to accept and then
to embrace

for faith
and life
and through that all the rest

in a holy now
and in the holy hours
to come

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