Prayer

The Light that shines from the beginning of timeyour name is unspokenas above so below your love and compassion waits for usWe treasure the nourishment as we strive to remain honest and trueforgiving and inclusive Let us keep within our sphereand have patience for those who ,often ourselves, selfish and self absorbed , Disturb our…

Three Moments Spent

Electrons do not have ears to listen As proteins wrap around Each other In the sacredObscenity of lifeCarbon chains Enslave the mere Immortal nature of hissing atomsIn the folly and spasms that somehow enshroud these moments of rapture, of sorrow and doubta folly that ends Inevitably In deathThe sunset glints across a beautiful unceasing horizon…

Not as

Do they have pianos in eternity?I wonder if my fingers will find the keys,ghosting melodies into endless air.Above, the cephalopods twist.Heaven’s creatures curl their slick embrace,tender and obscene,around the unguarded essence of angels,who arrive mute, shivering,their first thought always the same:“This is not the light I imagined.”Here, at the cliff’s edge, I linger.The weight of…