2023-10-08

response to news of chaos winning over love… in the life of two friends' son, the brother of others, & in the world of creative love



Not ev'ry action's sane. And here in saying now "Goodbye",

we know we need to groan and weep again

together as we gather, as we share the pain and cry 

we know that things can't keep on just the same.


We won't say Things were good! where they were not.

We want to recognize what really was

reflecting much of good before the lot

was flattened to this darkness now because..


a body must be buried before rot 

sets in; though some may think they saw rot there

when everything seemed fine (or it did not)

before life's seeds were growing fungal hair…


But most of all, my only chance and hope 

I put in one (who David once pledged to) 

who went through death and called it sleep to cope 

with its disruptive pow-er, and who knew


what it could be used for in God's good scheme.

How it could be a start to some new day,

in company with who knows what life means,

it can reset. I think that's how he'd pray1.


And we're not trying to be David's judge.

Yeshua told of strange things to come, yet: 

some enemies we thought would never budge 

will join the feast with those who don't forget.


And others who claimed God as their best friend 

might not show up at all - that's what he said.

So David's life is in God's hands. The end 

and start of all that's human - live or dead..



1 Rom 8:34-39


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