in the big inning

in Jewish and in Christian
lores
there are creation stories told
more than once
and in parts
many times
even Jesus
said to be there
calling the beginning of the essences
become
reality

and there are stories of us
and how we came to be
and way

made one perhaps
made two
without doubt

a sin of consumption
followed by
what might be more a problem of
division
then to rationalize mistakes and so
prescribe the direction
they must follow

all three
all four

for God had made that rock
that God could not
move
because like biased gravity
God’s will
must be mediated
by God’s will
that is leant by God’s
love

in love
and in joy’s promise
all was made by God and to the host
and to the cosmos
and to us

and after all the dreadful plan must work
there is like
Pandora
one thing left

the second thing of tripartite
things
being faith
and love
and to fix the world
is hope

say
faith the reason
love the means
hope
the vision
as in why bother in the first place

and this is lore
and this is
myth
and we interpret as we guess
from our experience

and there are many stories

we should read and respect them all
to know
beginnings
explain the present
situations
and
(via
hope)
respect the promise of the future
that
tells us how to believe
and think
and act

respecting all traditions
in their dovetailing
and as they work out
to reveal in time
(both
ways)
the first and final reasons
revelations

n.b.

and
yes
I know that you might want
to say that God’s not part of this
no more
and we are on our own
and maybe always

eschewing partnership
as if Michelangelo should have no faith
and the lone
wolf
an honest perception
though it’s not
	wolves living together
	monogamous
	in families

that
despite the isolation earnestly
perspective
there is more joining than a separation
more
that are joined
than all the pages of betrayal attempt
to testify

and
the main message that
we’re on our own

we’re not

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