ajoining properties...

Please God, help us to keep awake to what

you're doing and not be asleep to it,

then join in where we can, and throw our lot

in with your motivations, plans, to wit:

to serve all of your children, do what can

be done to help them grow, and get on well,

which is a fairly hard job, when each man

or woman, boy or girl, is caught in “hell” -

(a rubbish dump, designed to help decay

and speed up rotting, yet still quarantine

it’s smells and sights and functions as a way

of letting folk still chose, to not be seen

to be dependant on the Lord, their God,

the maker of themselves, and their whole earth,

the “undead” folk who shrink, who won't have trod

a path to death, if they could keep their worth.

They’d rather “find themselves”, that’s even if

their selves were dead and cut off from real life,

so whereas Jesus gave us quite a stiff

prognosis, and then treatment with his knife -

that’s if we follow his directions through

& keep him as our doctor, let him lead.

And trust him to give good advice unto

us, even when much in us will not heed).

I trust you to hold who I am, myself,

and unmake all the mess I've made of me,

and save me from my own ol’ living hell.

A new creation, who's both glad, and free.