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It looks like you're feeling for those different animals under your care, like their maker might... 

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Oh God, I thank you very much for make-

-ing mirrors of yourself about the place.

To open up the eyes in selves, to wake

us up to what we might have on our face...

the attitudes, commitments, that you've got

(not "set in stone" - all stone exists from them)

from lovingly creating the whole lot,

and wanting all your kids to prize this gem.

So thanks, somehow, along with his own will,

for making this young man, and letting him

be on this Earth while I am on it still,

to let our strong command be what's your whim.

You're often topsy turvy. You're the best,

the God of gods acts like a little boy,

and lets us chide him, put him to the test.

Oh God, I want to copy you, in joy,

with your determined love, and tears, & fun,

with all your hopes and wishes, faithfulness.

This is a very funny joke that's come

into my mind just now. You are the best!

You let us play at gennies - at your wish.

I'll chain myself with gladness to your will,

the will of lovely truth, as to a fish

is water, which the fish moves through its gills

in glad life-giving energy, not drained

by this exertion - energized by it.

Like breathing ain't the thing by which we're chained,

your will, oh God, spouts joy ahead of it!

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