Nothing to Fear



Will there be judgment

Well

Yes

Call it karma

Call it rapture

Call it the inexorable

Next thing



It will happen

As it happen

(que será

dust

in the wind)

What kind of trial

What kind of judge

What kind

Of advocate



Who stands for us

Well

It might be

That there are favored

On both sides

As the devil rides

Against our case

More than angelic

Might be those

Who argue

For us

Love

And grace

Criteria

And means



So we may say

Here

And now

Faith wins

That costs us nothing

But

Regains our souls

As if the first tragedies

Had not occurred

(though

they had)

And we are returned to God

From which

We came

Though not

Never

Without a saving story

Close at hand



Heaven

Might not be our own

Though an open door

Receive us

Forgive us

Justify us

For what has little literal matter here

But matters most

In there

And from there

Through the cosmos

Like black space

And all the wonders in between

Not to deny itself

As well

As black amazement



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