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Three-Syllables Agape or Two-Syllables Agape
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Sigh
And what does love way
After all the vituperation
All the blame-casting
All the metaphoric bile
In the hate we bear?
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I don’t know
That we should care for ourselves
And each other
That if we loved God first
Everything else would work
Respecting those who don’t believe
There are good atheists
And good agnostics
Who treat believers
As a crazed minority
And to look at the evidence
Have a case
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But it’s sin, I guess
From within and without
Our choices, the choices of others
Choose to love
Choose to hate
And who cannot be struck
Without saying OW
That’s natural
It’s impulsive
And deserved
Though it’s not the end
It does not have to rush
To blame and retribution
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Take a moment
Choose something like a star
Stay inspired through the hurt,
Which is not masochism
But allowing thought
And heart to keep a hold
From everything turned over
Into the nether realms
Of rusting feeling
Gnawing hate
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Give peace a chance
Can’t we all get along?
It must be so much better
Than saws
And satire
The darkness follows light
Then there’s more light
Illumination
We are better than our hurts
Better than vile agenda
We could make agenda brilliant
And ambition
And profit
And plans
And when there’s a crash
Of accident
Or wills
We could act as EMTs
And then allow a moment
To reconnoiter
And to reckon
How to heal a rending world
Bring it back
To one whole thing
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Yes, I mean the war
And wars everywhere
But I also mean the virus
We forget
Unless we’re sick
Or around
Those who are sick
And inflation
And corruption
We can do better
To keep the world from burning
We must
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I should end on a note of love
A song of peace
Measured by hope
But there are questions
To be answered, first
That we must put to each other
Questions
And answers
Reactions and worked-out actions
A process for our accountable part
Of the universe
Yes, that much
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C L Couch
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“Choose Something like a Star“
Robert Frost
. . .
So when at times the mob is swayed
To carry praise or blame too far,
We may choose something like a star
To stay our minds on and be staid.
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