Those who do

not want to honor

truly honor

Black History

Should not interrupt

those who are

living it

and looking

out of eyes of

endurance

all we can do

is live

what joy filled tears

we never shed

and tell the truth

with love

in the swimming pool

of God’s weary eye

 

 

We are told to rend
our hearts
not our outward draperies
the earth is rent
and rented
to us
for the
price of our care
and like any
other dispossession
the dispossessing
shall leave us
despairing
repenting
too late
 
 
 
 

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And what if
our lives
are loaned to us
for some interwoven
pattern
purpose
and this brief handful of days
reminds
the soul
of duty
yet
unpaid

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We are told to rend

our hearts

not our outward draperies

the earth is rent

and rented

to us

for the

price of our care

and like any

other dispossession

the dispossessing

shall leave us

despairing

repenting

too late

 

 

 

 

And what if

our lives

are loaned to us

for some interwoven

pattern

purpose

and this brief handful of days

reminds

the soul

of duty

yet

unpaid

Once I read in a book that love is always always work and/or courage now many years later I know while useful for a season such a definition stumbles sputters long before the finish line for love is always always grace true love is unmerited unconditional grace elegant luminous grace while work and courage may get up early put on overalls dungarees and feed the flame the radiance that stifles…

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Once I read

in a book

that love is always

always work and/or courage

now

many years later I know while

useful

for a season

such a definition

stumbles

sputters

long before

the finish line

for love is

always

always

grace

true love

is unmerited

unconditional

grace

elegant

luminous

grace

while work and courage

may get up early

put on overalls

dungarees

and

feed the

flame

the radiance that stifles

bitterness

aborning

is

only and always grace

 

So many things
we do this day
prepare the soil
for some distant harvest
the joy we find in
the anticipatory way
fixes in our blood and sinew
and deeper
patterns that
will live on
long after we are dust
the best of us
shall live
on

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So many things

we do this day

prepare the soil

for some distant harvest

the joy we find in

the anticipatory way

fixes in our blood and sinew

and deeper

patterns that

will live on

long after we are dust

the best of us

shall live

on