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abduction
(a draft about salvation)

we were taken away
from Eden
with Edenic living

whose fault
we don’t know
maybe everyone’s

maybe not ours
so much
because we were not there

except in some spirit
time and space
possibility

now we are held captive
and there should be
a ransom

since kidnapping goes that way
some amount
some prize

according to abductors
who have caged us in deceit
to call it living

so who must pay
to whom
and how much

the price might be forever
be everything
anyone could have

and pay the price
the price paid
which was a final deception

a trip
in which the rescuer
now gone would leave the rescued

untenable
not fit for anything but fire
the infernal fire

which is to say fire upon fire to
the glee
of the one who thought

who planned
who entwined
and who

in fact
led the absconding or ourselves
and now in victory

having arranged the killing
of the only one to save
until

this moment
this moment when it
turned out

there was a reason for the death
and it was
to guarantee a life

one life
all
lives

together have the chance
now
to be saved

and what weeps and what
gnashes its teeth but a
planner

the abductor
who thought that killing it should mean the end
and it should now

but doesn’t
in that we may choose
faith in our own supernal return

the one returned
who offers the returning
to anyone

and as plus with anyone
becomes
an all

a following
angels and us
perhaps

in faith then
by grace
we return and then

even better yet move forward
to the gates of Eden now
angel-unassigned

shall become a new Eden and how about
gateway to new Earth
by new heaven

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