What
(and why)
So what is love
But that we love each other
Undesiring
Maybe
But love regardless
Making mistakes
If minorly regarding timing
To being
And to keep going
And majorly
As in the trying of each faithfulness
Deserving faith
Yet
Facing
Letting go
Love does let go
In earthly jurisdiction
Though
Informally love begins
And should maintain itself
Love
As a family
After all
In all the shapes and
Sizes
Even states and nations might
Take on
Love is
Not weak
But is
Negotiation
Love once begun
As love
Should remain
And
Does remain
Though life must have its way as well
And there are
Separations
Finally
Through finally
Though imperfections
Imperturbable shall
Not last
But find their end
When all shall be renewed in
The right way
So love lasts
And its health must be allowed to us
While
We have here
Until
We hope
We’re there
To find the hale and lasting parts
Really do
Faithfully
Delightedly
Persist
Even as a new kind
Of forever
And we may wait in all this
Wait as in count
Also
Wait as in attend
Attend as in show up
Also
Attend to serve
(a good reason for
showing up)
So let love
Then
Be love
Let it mature
Like wine that should grow
Before delighted here
If once
And then forever
At the table where
Like Philemon’s pitcher
Shall be
Renewed
With better
For us at the table
(and may we all be there)
In that house
And at
That feast
On the other side
That love
Shall take us there
C L Couch
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Monday after Sunday Prayer
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Lord,
What’s going on?
Where are you?
Where are we?
Are we lost,
Or it is that
So much seems lost
On us?
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Do we simply
Not get it?
We engine on
And sometimes there are wheels
Where do they take us?
Why should we make the trip?
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Too many questions
We want some
Certainty,
Please
We want to know
We’re on the path to
Something good,
What we’re aiming toward
And heading toward
Is good
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Good for prosperity
Good for wisdom
Good for relief
On our arrival
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How will get there?
Do angles light the way?
And yet
Some part of us must be
Agnostic
Must question
Doubt
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We have to assay
Whether it’s treasure
Or rust
Or rusty treasure
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To take
Simply admire
And walk on
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Into future
(into Tuesday)
To the next site
A challenge
The next prayer
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C L Couch
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Beware of these Streets
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