[Johnathan]
But you are not dead
and you are not lost causes,
but because I sense
that your tense question deserves
a more reserved, full response,
consider again
what wants to be understood
about one’s faith that
creates space for exact facts
unknown but believed to be
possibilities
that frame the same foundation
upon which to act.
The threshold for birth and death
is the same door frame for in
and out transference
into Earth’s grand habitats
fat with challenges.
We celebrate birth showered
in mirth because of hope’s girth
and rising action
and Life’s play to make the day’s
events shine brightly.
Death, the shade of that bright light,
is made opaque with despair’s
impaired prayer of black
veils that will curtail the ache
killing any hope
to cope with morning the loss.
That focus needs to be tossed.
Exploring the fuss
of children rushed from visits
with gramps that emit
fits of discontent that cramps
joyful salutations fit
for punctuating
the elating exchanges
permeating joy
that is destroyed when parting
ignores the starting-again
on another day
to engage in playful frays,
grants adult insight
into the flight of the soul
consoled with its new found goal.
You will choose again,
Kevin, consciously or not,
if death rots the plot
or creates the slot to pass
through to new lessons to view
to construe what you
need to do in these events
invented for your
intervention to teach through
an array of choices that
will sway or betray
failure with keen inspection
of your reflections.
[Crystal]
Perhaps I am eccentric.
I know I am eclectic
in my religious
consciousness that confesses
a continuum
that gains momentum and death
will not arrest the depth nor
the breadth of my best
effort to comport with true
righteous harmony.
Hindu reincarnation
helps with my recognition
that reality
continually expands
like breathing is not
only one breath in and out
but a continued process,
like the continued
progress of my life’s events
with ups and some downs
that crown my sound growth around
the truth of reality’s
virtue that accrues
with deeper understanding
of Aquinas’s
Uncaused Cause of the First Cause
merged with Stephen Hawking’s text **
that reflects on the
entity before the Big
Bang popped the biggest
bang ever which has since then
endeavored to populate
this great universe
with diverse phenomenon
and matter upon
which we evolved as creatures
who procured intelligence
which wonders if we
will endure the immature,
naïve, ignorant,
greedy, narcissistic acts
that detract from the value
of the revenue
our character uses
to pursue better
practices that will enhance
surviving and, then, thriving.
Hawking’s thinking is
evolution’s slow moving
progression to thoughts
not yet understood and truths
shrouded in mystery’s fog
logged as new lessons
concerned with all issues that
further the future.
So the feature that’s needed
is for all to forestall greed.
Since Christians believe
in an all perfect god, I
conceive It to be
the perfect teacher who’s mute
on preaching but loves teaching.
So we’re here to learn
to discern the kernel truth
of It’s creation.
If anything can pass through
the opening to the new
continued learning
it is the intangible,
capable, fine mind
that we can’t find directly
as the brain’s gain with knowledge.
So Kevin, there’s work
for you to uncork meaning
from choices teaming
with emotional stress best
resolved through clarity that
solves indecision
with your honest perception’s
authenticity.
[Kevin]
I’m not sure what I should do
about you, two, and Compton,
William and Donald
and the whole crew that knew me
before the coin joined
my consciousness promoting
access to something beyond
my comprehension.
There are those among you who
seek truth every day
in every way regardless
of the mess it resurrects.
[Johnathan]
It’s not about coins.
It’s about a life conjoined
to found principles
and disciples choosing paths
that survive the aftermath
of ignorant acts
that attack Its harmony.
This chart plots the way
to start to embark to gain
cooperative power
to facilitate
our innate trait to think
and to reason well
and to avoid treason through
voluntary compliance.
[Kevin]
Reliance on choice
is essential and crucial
fundamentally.
You can never force my choice.
It must always be on me.
[Marlo]
Choice must never be
compromised because justice
would be otherwise
unclear to steer the correct
accountability straight
to the source that baits
naiveté to stray far
away from the state
of true cooperative,
harmonious, effective,
daily solutions
to lessons needing to be
learned quite completely.
But accountability
has a hidden subtlety.
Correctness within
justice implies viable
matching of causes
to appropriate outcomes
in tangible forms that will
reform the social
fabric by erroring acts
that distract from goals
pertinent that will uphold
the untold truth needing sleuths
to uncover signs
that will shine light on the plight
of needing every
human to comprehend well
the gambler’s tell that will swell
needed confidence
to avoid bluffs and bet best
to stay in the game
to tame insecurity
guaranteed by stubborn chance.
Justice is never
revenge to amend wrongs wrought
and forever fought.