Long Exhale Now and Then

Exhale
And then a little more

Get it out
Whatever it
Might
Be

More than
A pulmonary test
Or getting the bad air out
As
In a cartoon

Getting into meditation
Only if
There is
The time

Otherwise
Breathe out
As
You would have to do
Anyway

You know to
Keep on living

But let it out
A little more
Not as an exercise
As much
As to
Let a little more
Of the bad air
Out

The promise also
Taking of
A little more
Of the good air
In


By God

In a kind of sponsorship
And also of companionship

Two promises
Not if
But as
They happen

Irascible
Indelible
Perfection in divine reality

As well as perfection
In the offing for the rest of us
Maybe
Beneath the angels
(the war in heaven notwithstanding)
For the mortal
Rest of us


C L Couch


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