(x = space)
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Slowdown Season
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Lent could mean
Anticipation,
If we would allow for that
In the midst of conversations
About sacrifice
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Having given up
On chocolate, we need
Something to talk about
How about why?
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Sacrifice for its own sake
Being good,
Don’t get me wrong
Though we can
Say more
About the season
About church
About reading
About us
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Lent means getting ready
Or it might
Lest we forget
Why we gave up the chocolate
Or the coffee
Or, I don’t know,
What do people give up
Nowadays?
(maybe screen time)
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It seems we give up
Something somewhat bad
Somewhat good
Maybe it’s the excess
We surrender,
Which a good ancient Greek
Will say
Is always good
A lifestyle to adopt
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Well, we’re not here
To parse
We’re here, in fact, because
We’re unified
We want one thing
Even if delivery
Is holiday disarray
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We want a happy Easter
With rabbits
And eggs
(rabbits who lay eggs)
And back to chocolate
Like a former friend
Now reconciled
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There is more
But it’s not mine to say
You must, must not
It is yours to say
To own a resurrection
Shown in nature
Told as story
A question and an answer
Of belief
It’s yours to say
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C L Couch
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Walk the Line
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March 4, 2021 at 4:55 am
A great thoughtful poem… Seems we have been in a season of lent for the whole past year!
dwight