God Love You like a Lizard

God love you like
A lizard
You know the
Small
The salamander kind

Green or red or brown
But made
Just right for all impulses so
To thrive

To move with halting grace
Through life
To dine upon whatever
Then to sleep among
Warm rocks and sheltering leaves
When its world
Is all right
Around it

Yes
Love and the
Lord
Like the eagle
Too
With expansive and majestic
Wings
And the beak that promises
To tear many things
Asunder
(yes
my dear
like lizard's flesh)

But don’t forget the lizard
(in its primacy)
With all its wonder
Small
Green
Or red or brown

Unassuming
Fit
With nature
And the cosmos
In its
Tiny
Tiny
Role
Inside creation
And via its (tiny) role
Above

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