Let’s Party!


 

Let’s Party!

I was Told
that The God
of My Sunday School Class
Loved Me
In Spite of My Self,

a Self Despoiled
by Eve’s Curiosity and
Adam’s Disobedience
In Tasting Forbidden Fruit
Called Knowing
The Difference Between
Good and Evil.

That God
then Fashioned a Whip

to Drive The Two Sinners
from Paradise,

to Distant Places
Teetering on the
Edge of Hell,

Into Which Death
would Throw Them
Unless

Lambs were Slain
in Their Stead,
including
The Lamb
of The Gospels.

I Am
Waking Up
from That Nightmare

to Find My Self
In the Inseparable
Cherishing Embrace of
The I Am That
I Am,
That You Are,
The All That Is
All That Is.

The Love
and Light
and Laughter
Who Knows
Nothing Else But
to Throw a Party of
Adoration,
Free of
Condition or Judgment,

for the Beloved
Prodigal You
Fear Your Self
To Be.

Rock Concert


 

Rock Concert

My Aging Limbs
Long to Sink
Into the Comforting
Grip of the
Seat Beneath Me,

But All Around Me
The Others Are
On Their Feet,
Energy from the Stage
Insinuating into Their
Twisting Torsos and
Flailing Young
Limber Limbs.

Onstage the Magician
Musicians’
Fingers Fly and
Arms Dance,
Seducing Sound into
Admissions of Pleasure
Beyond Guilt.

I Enter
The Mystery,
Where I Am
Told by The Maker of
Limbs and Torsos and
Music and Magic and
Pleasure,

That This Is
Every Bit
The Worship of
All That Is

That Every
Holy Hymn
Aspires To.

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