sorry loneliness won’t do

I haven’t said
the Lord today
though God
is in the everything
of thought
and as we say
our word
and
deed

and in which
we also say
(liturgically)
we live
and not merely live
but move
and have our being
proved
by moving
evidently

breathing’s good
and moving
proofs of life
though more so
elements of life
we get
to use

God having approved
by making
by investing spirit
inside cells
and going outward
toward the entire animal
whose skin
and muscle
we might note
admire
and use

to build ourselves a world
of us
and flora for survival
after fauna

an Earth of godly things
an Earth approved
at least for
six days
inside the hours of
the seventh day

in our image
so we work
expending energy
to make
if co-create

while curse
and flaws
get in the way
and nothing lasts
it seems
but prophecy
and that must be
interpreted
while the bias of each age
gets in the way

if biased toward
gravity
if gravity also an example
and indicator
of our lean
toward love

forces of attraction
of
literal energy
for investing
and for building
not a building
more so
an age
for discovery
of people
and keeping us together
for a legacy
so that the Earth might last
according to the order
of creation

as our
response
to the desire
and otherwise the loneliness
of everyone
in
everything

c l couch


photo by Daniel Angele on Unsplash 
“Talented Street Musician in Lisbon”
(though with apologies I could call this A Study in Loneliness or A Study in Parallels)