(prieve and)

re-prieve

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Oh God! These bodies have done very well.

They scare us though, with your attention to

the details of how we can bring on Hell

into this Middle Earth, and how we do

have power to, by our responses, lift

or lower our whole Universe, in views

that we would hold tenaciously as gift

to care for, or as just resource to use.

But thanks for bringing options (into space

& time of our existence) here on Earth.

So thanks for ways to partner & to place

our trust (of friendship) in you since our birth...

foretold, which seems like coming very soon,

as soon as this womb world has done its trick

conduiting our connections (as the moon

can transfer light from Sun, so very quick,

round corners, into shadows we call night)

and brought us to enough maturity 

to make the journey which may seem quite fright-

-ful (through the birth canal) till we can see

our fam’ly, Dad & siblings, even Mum, 

though we could only see her body since

our eyes began to work, our sight to come.

But seeing more can sometimes make us wince.

We're taking on our duties in the way 

a small child does, who follows whimsy where

it leads, curtailed by what their parents say.

That friendship, list’ning, babbling, is our “prayer”.

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