Unseeing
(for those who nearer wait and might get scared about it)

One of the invisible
Left
It seems
To deal with mortality
Alone
For who can understand
How close we are
And who is interested
To know
By being near
To hear
About it all

I believe
Help my unbelief

This prayer
Should be for children
But we own it for
Ourselves
With or without
Temerity

What really happens next
And why must we
Transition to it
With more
Than
An easy walking there

Why does it
Or might it
Hurt so much

Why is it so hard
Here
To come back
From being hurt in
Any way

Is it compensation
For younger
Sinful
Times
It is a kind of preparation
Rehearsing for the final hurt
When we let go
When time
As such
Lets go of us

And will it hurt
And will we sleep
And wake
To walk

Or will we fly
From where we are
And on landing
Will we have
Such a good time
There

So much we do not know
And maybe we aren’t
Listening
Or maybe we discount
What there is to
Hear
In the rush that drowns out everything
Spiritually
to apprehend
As in
What we may buy to own
What we may have
Or believe to have

And I’m sorry for those
Who do not go so far this
Side of things
Who must leave
Early
In our count of things
Without allowances for time
In satisfaction
But in
Something uncounted
Like
Explosions
Leave too soon

Sorry I don’t take you now
While I’m afraid
Trying to make a circle
Of attention
Out of one
And only one

Who feels
Has lost
The other points
To bend the line
To join only
With
A math of one

But could
Relent
In hope
To see
To sense
To know
To say
I am a part of this
Of many points
And
Part of this
And part of them
With me

The points
That is
Be people
Not of politics
(below)
But of a new
And brilliant circle
As we might sing
Of the unbroken kind

And so I could
And should
Join in
And let the others
All the others
Go with me
Any age
Any time
Or nearly any situation

If I might be
Allowed
       Or anyone
       To advocate
To join as
Us
With us

Who have
As all
(of all
of all of us)
Come from
And thus can and may
Go
To love
A circled
And
Forever kind
Of love

C L Couch


Mark 9

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