YaHWeH! Tonight we lit a fire and cooked
up food, as well as warming ourselves in
the coolness of the eve’ning air, and looked
at what the fire showed of what's surroundin’.
We used up energy that was sequest-
ered over many years gone by, by trees
as they just did their job (where birds have nest-
ed) in those solar-panels we call leaves -
combining CO² with water to
make wood that keeps the sunlight en-er-gy
held in its substance - there-by “you know who”
has helped us to keep warm by “chemistry”.
And we are beneficiaries of that..
..that prior work done, and left as a gift.
So thank you to creative love which sat
down - planning such a goodness that might lift
up spirits in his children, whom he knew
might like to see light, feel the fire’s warmth,
and have a chance to talk about things too,
this is the kind of thing that just might form
the hearth of households right across the world
except I s’pose, wherever we have cut
the line of this causality and hurled
the pieces far apart, so they might not
be understood and “seen” as one whole thing.
We separate the bits with lengths of wire.
But though we are not birds and don’t have wings,
he found our true selves nested round that fire.
