Out from Under



I get tunnel-visioned

Don’t we all

Or maybe not

Maybe there are those

Who are clear

Nearly all the time

Who have the sight

Beyond seeing

Hear the message

More than sound

Touch

And taste

The living water in

Life-giving air

Who get the magic

In the doctrine

Or without any word

That’s formal



Who get it

While we don’t

Who understand the Earth

With that kind of listening

That touch



Who also understand the pain

And do not give it

Or if a little

Ask for pardon

Promising

Enacting

Some

(not all)

Penance



C L Couch





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