After a bout of depressing self pity
The Bard realized what it really means to live in hope
Hope means seeing the world as it is
A hurly-burly mess or ever-changing realities
A work in progress
A hope that seeks a pie in the sky
That will someday take away all confusion is a lie
And a lotus eater vision of peace and tranquility
Is a total bore
To live in Hope is to see creation as God sees it
A chaotic stew of changing parts and particles
That draw great energy and even joy
From crashing into one another
Is there a “God’s Plan” that religious types keep talking about
Or course there but any human being that say he knows what it is
Is either a liar or a jackass
To rely or catch phrases like the Bible tell me so
Or the Church says so it to live in false security
Whoever coined the phrase, “ Wisdom of Uncertainty”
Knew what he was about.
Secretly, the Bard always had his doubts about Heaven
Not being brave enough to reject the idea altogether
He consoled himself with the idea that the people who described it
Didn’t know what they were talking about
Because the God who was so dynamically exciting
Would never create a state so incredibly boring
So to live in hope means to live in a cosmic stew pot
And accept it as it is, Trying to make it better when we can
And not beating ourselves up when we fail.
It is too bad that it took loosing the one person in this world
That he really loved to learn something so obvious
10/11/2009 3:21 PM
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Dynamically realized and brilliantly shared dear Bard. The path home...Starstuff.
Finding that "spark" of God.
Thank you John.
Good question. I'll remember to ask it more often.
It will never come out of my mouth that I know what it is!!!
Iam still asking him what his plan is for me!! I do hope he for real , otherwise I ll feel like an idiot waiting for plan...
In fact he is all that is truly real. Some times we only see his plan in retrospect.,, after something happens. Perhaps like reading this poem
I know God is real ....
I do know he has a special plan for me..
Some of his plan has already worked out...
I am just waiting to see what next he has planned for me.
"Secretly, the Bard always had his doubts about Heaven
Not being brave enough to reject the idea altogether"
This is such a revelatory and wonderful sentence, John.
My thought is that we might as well keep going no matter what... who knows what is around the next corner. Might be something good!
Don't stop writing.
"Some times we only see his plan in retrospect... after something happens." How true. And how easy. Faith is believing, trusting before the fact. So hard.