I wrote this probably too hastily yet for verse I hope it is acceptable (receivable). If you have prayers and/or good thoughts to offer, I’d like to ask them for my friend who’s having his eye operated on today. Thank you so much.
heal my friend
Monday
my friend has an operation in
a few hours
it’s on an eye
and so
will not be easy or simple
at all
as in a week or so I’ll have a procedure
that is simple replacement of
an implanted device
been
gone through
once by me
and so many times through the people with whom
I consult
his operation’s hard as
well as complex
many stages to go through
and
then an uneasy time of recovery after
all goes well
that is
the hope
of course
if all were an eye
you know
and thankfully it’s not
we’re
not
but that is metaphor for Christian duty
while his
the actual need
for sight
God help him
keep him
guide the hands that serve him
and
frankly
like asking for my niece because I don’t your will
precisely
so please heal her
please heal my friend
in
part out of
plain direct
praying
shall we ask for what’s clear and toned by
careful notes and leave
the gray notes
out
gathered by the single one who with angels
serving
knows rightly
how to play
well
everything
every song for every purpose
under
heaven
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1 Corinthians 12:17
“If all were an an eye, where would the sense of hearing be?”
photo by Murray Campbell on Unsplash
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Bland Recovery
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I was hoping
I’d feel better
Even with the brace
I couldn’t find
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I was hoping
I could cross my legs
To write
And not pay for it,
Afterward
With added pain
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Here I am on
The fifth Saturday
Wishing it would
Go away,
Wishing that
Too much would
Go away
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Well, I can walk
On it but then
I wear it out
And it wants to cry,
To complain
About injustice
And why it should
Be me
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Time to think
About the others,
Which sometimes
Is cold comfort
For why should
You hurt more
So that I feel less
And berate myself
For lack
Of sympathy?
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Sigh,
The days goes on
And I am in it
You’re there, too,
Most likely with
Your greater pain
And I’m sorry,
Really am
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I hope we are
Forgiven for
All the nothing we
Have done
To warrant pain
As punishment
And the lessons others
Will impose
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Our pain an object—then
An object lesson
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