Loaded Words*

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* Words are very helpful, and even necessary, but are still not the essential core (the Word of God, the Message from God is), and Jesus’ words to the Jews are: “If I fail to do what my Father does, then do not believe me. But if I do, even though you have no faith in me personally, then believe in the things that I do.” John 10:34-38 And the gospels translate Jesus’s (Aramaic) words into the trade language of the day (Koine Greek); and his message is variously communicated as centering on “the Kingdom of God” (in Mark & Luke), “the Kingdom of Heaven” (in Matthew), “Eternal Life” (in John)...etc

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For certain groups of people, loaded Words
and Language, Ideas, Metaphors, become
quite cliched, & can then become absurd,°
cease to smell nice, or bring all lovely, some

fresh wind of paradise, or incense smoke.
For though they hold the food that once was good,
and though it had been eaten by some bloke,
or sheila in the past, its goodness could

still have to be composted then be spread
around and then be dug in, near to plants.
Until that time, we’ll sometimes need to shed
the cliched words or things that feel like rants.

For some, we have to be prepared to say
to people, in the Lord’s name: “You’re released -
no need for you to do C, B, & A,
& maybe you just should forget all these

specific ways of talking about God,
his hopes, and dreams, and possibilities,
just “Follow Love with every drop of blood
within your body.” I think that that frees

up people, or at least it sometimes can,
to help them to take hold of what is core.
Creative words, expressions: “Son of Man”
“Eternal Life”, “God’s kingdom”, and some more,

are what can serve some people, for some time,
and needs be freed for times, from meanings past
so people blossom, their lives freshly rhyme,
until we come to where we’ll be at last.

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° originally instead of 'absurd,' the text (at the end of the third line of the first stanza) read  'like "turds", '. I changed it at a friend's suggestion. Both are true.