Water Works

I’ve written words
Here are some words
I need
More coffee
Be back soon
(soon-ish)

Back

With coffee
(rounded spoonful
thin rivulet
of count
to six for cream)
with some yogurt
Take a spoonful
Have a sip
Still missing ideas

Something
For you
For today

It is
A still day
To appreciate
Before the world’s noise
Returns

The last spoonful
And another sip
What shall I say
Beyond
Let’s have a day
And then another
Should apocalypse
Agree

Though I must
Say
I don’t spend hours
Worrying over this
And what happens next
For I don’t know
And neither
Do you

Which is a way
To say
Relax
Or at least
Worry over what there is
To worry
Over
Say
The health and joy in things
In the ones
We love especially
And the ones we pray for
Known
Or stranger
And more likely both

Maybe the message is
To pray
For there will be answers
And therein lay the risk
That when we ask
Or even state
There will be hearing
With response

Which might be a mystery
I don’t know
How it works
(you might)

Maybe we cry
Maybe
We stamp our feet for answers
That aren’t coming
On our terms
And there’s
The mystery
For there are answers
And why can’t
We always know them

Maybe best
To leave them in the air
Therein is faith
There in
And on the earth
And underneath
And in the ocean-depths
Is love
For us
(for each other
sourced
overall)
From God

Wash in all this
Clean in this
Our cleanliness ain’t perfect
But in what we may have
Be
Real good

C L Couch


. . .
Fishes and fowls
And beasts and birds
Swam the rivers and the seas,
Roamed the forests and the woods,
And split the air with their wings.
And God said: That's good!

James Weldon Johnson, “The Creation”


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