More Poetry...

“it is a puzzlement”

We seek easy answers...quick solutions…

always in a cultural, collective hurry

to find “the way”, whether to

    lose weight or

    guard the borders or

    defeat terrorism or

    prevent teen pregnancy or

    cure breast cancer or

    raise children or 

   be the Church…

When will we realize, do you suppose,

that, each of us- each and every one

of us- is part of the solution?

Not the whole- for no one person’s

wisdom is that complete- but part…

each of us bringing our own small but

necessary piece to contribute to the

complex puzzle that is life together.

right & wrong

Why do we so fear being wrong?

Why do we so need to be right?

Is it because we operate from

the shaky premise that acknowledging

another’s rightness means accepting

our own wrongness- seeing life in

terms of right & wrong instead of

                   possibilities and

                   probabilities?

Why indeed do we want to paint

the world in black and white at all

when before us lies an incredible

palette of brilliant colors, with hues

of infinite variety and endless

                   possibility?

Fellow traveler on this winding road,

have you nor seen? have you not heard?

All nature cries out to be seen and appreciated…

all humanity cries out to be understood…

all creation echoes the holy truth that

    each belongs to all and there is no

    clear stopping place between us,

    no line of demarcation, nor

    line drawn in the sands of time...

for if God is All in All,

    then that includes us- you and me and they-

    the elephants and wildebeests,

    the otters and racoons,

    the towering redwoods and creeping ivy,

    the flowing rivers and booming seas…

                            and there is nowhere that God is not…

                                                      and who is right

                                                      and who is wrong

                                                      pales in the wonder

                                                      of that reality.