(walk) in …

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Imagine being free to live in love,

I don’t mean just instinctive stuff like the

ol’ mating impulse, nesting habit shove-

-eling things round about, which helps us be

more ready for the influx of a babe -

a little one who has no pow-er to

communicate, it must just trust; they wade

through ignorance together, till they do

in fact know more, and listen up more keen-

ly to some others who have gone before,

and really have shown out what most folk mean

by wisdom, and commitment to be more

than they could ever be if left alone,

in other words they know “community”

in practice, & in fact they’ve clearly shown

what HESED love* has meant, and now could be..

if only that strong, wise, creative thing

could be the spirit (ent’ring like a muse)

that causes bird to fly, not just “have wing”,

yet apples to drop “down”, not ways they choose,

and artists to have more than what is left

within our model world's within our heads,

bring other options to appearance, heft

the burden of sustaining life from dead

stuff, or dust of matter’s elements,

for HESED love’s the word vibrating still

creating and sustaining worlds, invents

new options necessary now, or will

be, when the time is right, and ripe to fall.

It thinks not just of foci, focussed down

(although a single one, embodies all),

it trusts it's senior partner won’t just frown

because it's world ’sbeen made by, lives in, love

HESED, and we have heard (not just a sound)

but we have heard a word (learned “from above”*),

and now we learn to stop and look around,

and work with what we see this muse is ON -

is doing, and is on about just now.

We get this sense by looking where light shone

in past times. And at “curtain”, we would bow.

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* HESED= Ancient Hebrew word for family-love, loyal-love, loving-kindness, undeserved-favour, chosen-to-bless, steadfast-love, covenant love, commited-keeping-your-word-determined-blessing etc seen as part of the essential identity of YaHWeH (their God). We are made to breathe it's air, and participate in its ecosystem, and although we can function as a luminary of it, we are never the ultimate initiator; our job (like the moon is with sun-light) is to bask in it, and reflect its light into dark places. It always comes to us “anothen” (an Ancient Greek word meaning either “again” or “from above”).