body together

His body
broken for me
His body.

The place we are all
in together. His body
broken for me
We
are all
broken
together.

If

If we could see you then, after the mist
Has dissipated and you are revealed for what you don't present
If we could
We would be blown
Into the next
Phase of ourselves in which we are more like that
And less like dirt.
But you made us from this
And we show it.

If we could pretend that the sky was where you are
And heaven is a place
Then
Then we could see ourselves there.
As it is, trickiness shrouds the possibility
Nay
Certainty that you surround us always everywhere
To praise your name eternally need not be for someday, when we have no other interests that tug on our souls.
It should be for today.
If
If we could see you.

Live so small

Oh we live so small
To see the face you bring
Ring
Show the bell who's boss.
Oh we love so small
He left the coins
With me in charge and what
What will he come back to see
Created in his name!

This is the shame of our name
For he left us with his and we shrouded it
In a bag set in the dark, dusty corner waiting
Waiting for his safe return.
To show off
Our tiny love.
We have kept it hidden so well so secure
That he cannot even tell it is his.

Lord.
Let us love bigger than the Small. Legs and arms and messy hair filled up with the abundance of Grace we cannot
Hold.
Love so big to live inside of.

Too high a price

With the sun in my eyes
And on my cheeks
The music clutching my soul and tapping my hands
I realize
Suddenly
That I pay to high a price for this frown I wear
It is I who strains to be unhappy
I who forces the muscles
Down

When they don't have to work nearly as hard simply to let loose
And lose this grimace
For no reason at all.
Except that the world is hard.

And I am letting it harden me.
No!
For I pay too high a price
When I let my joy be stolen by the million other sadnesses or callouses or seriousness or carefulnesses
Of this place.

It's not my home
And I won't pay the
Tax

Fly on the wheel fingers, fly up and flit to the beat.
Let them revel in the sun and feel the mouth float up too
To
See You.

Alive

None of us get out of here
Alive

No none. But faith
Created in our hearts in our mouths
Shows us the beauty in
Death and suffering. Faith.

Give us this daily bread.

Grains

Like standing on the sand in the moonlight
Looking up
At the twinklings we can
Assume
Are stars. Created
So we can look
Up
At them
Or

So they can look down
On us
And see us twinkle in
Response.

Do not be so gentle

immovable you
you
make the
land. land
on me
with such force
god I am begging
do not be so gentle.
bring your voice
over my life.
immovable you
you
make the
freedom.
to
turn
my
head.

now
let. us all as one
sit closer next to
the emptiness
surrounding the
chairs that have no
hope of ever
being introduced to
a friendly loving
hand.
that leads to a
face
as immovable as yours.