potent ial

 

Oh God, we're sitting here, and doing well,

and being well looked after in this plane,

while many folk around still suffer hell-

ish situations, with responses same.

Our neighbours back at home are feuding still,

except one has just changed his focus from

the ones below, to others up the hill,

and now those friendships will be shortly bombed.

Our fam'ly round about are aging quick.

These mortal bods are running down hill fast.

And soon we might be with that COVID sick,

but either way we'll lose them at the last.

So like our "baby" teeth must all fall out

to let those which are "permanent" come through,

I guess we'll have to lose this life (no doubt),

to let God gift the body he would, to

his children, so what's mortal will be filled,

ful-filled by immortality that's strong,

and "indestructible", as God has willed,

as Jesus' body has continued long.

And what a way of life you have so planned,

that humans might be paired, and pro-create

(more amateur it seems to me), but manned

& woman-ed, in a way that can elate!

And here's the cross-roads with a  choice to mend -

to keep proportion as we go our way,

to let our gratefulness express, extend

from "fruit"; to "tree"; to "garden"; "-er"…; I'd say.

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