Eternity

is a place of stasis, free from entropy,
a place where everything is self renewing.

No wonder humans admire the idea
but find that the hope of getting there tiring.

Dogs Run Free

in St Antonin, and the cats
share the life of retired deities,
by the communal bins,
sharing sacrificial leftovers.

Like the lilies of the field
they neither reap nor sow,
but live in the 'now'
of a slower, more restful, life.

Television

is the life-in-a-box
for people who lead
boxed in lives
and don't want
to get out of them.

The Road To Hell

is built on the overselling
of 'good intentions',
from which there is no recovery.

The Unknown Calendar

Moses and Noah
were said to live for 120 years
and 950 years, respectively,
whether time ever dragged for them
remains an unknown unknown,
like the calendar that was used
to measure their lifespans.

For the unnamed women, children,
and all the livestock who lived
under Moses' protective patriarchy,
who survived the death of all
who worshiped the golden calf,
being ceaselessly being dragged
back and forth across the desert,
never to reach the promised land,  
the time spent in motion
must have felt slower  than it actually was.

The Circle Line

From hope to cynicism, to ignorance,

for the want of anything sure in which to trust,
is but a short journey, the steps of which,
once taken, are impossible to retrace.
Though many try to get around that impossibility
by retrace their loss of belief, going round in circles.

The Hope Of Unforgiveness

The Old Testament is the set of books
that seeks to prove that grumpiness
needs to exist and must be loved.
But for faith in grumpiness to be sustained
it first has to be embodied, then hardened,
and then tenderized all over again.

The terrain that gave birth
to The Old Testament experience,
is like the stories themselves, spare
difficult to appease, and very unforgiving.