Inauguration
A blue light in the sky
Maybe green
Depends upon perspective
Looking out along the silver sea
Of an ancient world
The truth is this:
Matter exists
So does the abstract
Earth and harmony
Air and loyalty
Water and benevolence
All things come together at the last
For judgment and better
Placement in the heavens
Meantime we breathe
We move
We love the seasons
I fall and maybe you are there
To pick me up
The risk, the chance, the danger
In saying, today we live
We step, we reach
We are aware
Living is chosen for the day
Our enemies might scoff
We in turn scorn
But better worlds than these await
And we have only time until
True glory is manifest
And a paradise of grace and will travels
Arriving in our atoms,
Saving electrons, all energy
Accounted
This is what we have
Who we are is how we choose
Salvation comes from love
And the faith
That persists
In you, in me, in all
C L Couch
(in my journal, after drafting for what’s above)
There. Message for the day. Persist. Endure. Celebrate a little. Find small pleasures. Look forward. Move now.
My headache is bad. The coffee helps.
January 22, 2017 at 1:58 am
thoughts of life as it should be, and sometimes is
January 22, 2017 at 6:02 pm
So beautifully said!
January 24, 2017 at 12:17 am
Gorgeous poem Christopher. Some fine writing for sure,although with some sadness. You wrote some powerful images.