Subj : [CHRISTIA] new poetry, "Dreamed-Up"
To   : Practical Christian Life
From : Mark
Date : Sun Jun 14 2020 12:57:45

From: lamppoet@CENTURYTEL.NET (Mark)

Listen..that's all.

 

"Dreamed-Up"

 

("Jesus replied, 'Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will
love them. We will come to them and make our home with them.'" John 14:23)

 

She woke up and thought she would write some words
to the one person she had refused her words for
five years and more. And then the words were only
the sudden hope of manufactured miracles,
the quick passing of canned words strengthened by seeing
it

 

All in a dream.

 

While he had suffered for seven years, the pain building
like a slow ascent up a Mexican pyramid, or the steep hills
you hike
that look just like a one short jaunt until sightlines break the ridge
to see
more and more hills ahead and in your periphery. More hills that
eventually end upon a plateau of pain; a restless place where

 

Each day drowns you underneath its angry intent of
shoving every thought out of a once active brain,
and your habits are soggy and sweat from the energy consumed
attempting to beat back welding pen that has engraved "pain"
upon every movement of your body.

 

But she (who could challenge her motives) merely sent a "word"
that dreamed up a prophetic announcement that all he pain would
be finished soon.

 

And he would like an ear, for she would not bear to hear, in a month
or a year,
that the season had remained, the pain still plunging him helplessly
beyond anyone's comprehension

 

Except God's alone.

 

 

Beyond,

mark p.

lamppoet@centurytel.net

 

Mark's Blog

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