Real - Part I

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These brief bursts

Where we see,

With heartbreaking Clarity,

For just a Moment,

Real

Before "reality" realizes the breach

And rushes back in,

like an ocean wave over

seashell treasures in the sand

suffocating What Was Seen

As though It never was...

And we wonder,

And question what we saw,

And dismiss as a trick of the light,

The Truest Light

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"Let there be Light"

Genesis 1:3

Tether

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You disguise us in flesh

As You did Jesus

Bodies tethering us to Terra Firma

Lest we fly

And forget our charge

The land-locked souls

For whom we are here

We are The Smugglers

of Your Image

Formed in us

Breathed in us

The which we bear into a world

Who is Longing to know

What You Really look like

Unlikely purveyors of Providence

We are found in just as unlikely places

 - As You always were

As You always are -

Not always in pews and pulpits and parishes,

More often in pubs and dog parks and sacred places of the sort

We move quietly among them

To deliver the Goods

To tether their spirits

to Heaven

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"As He Is, so are we in this world."

1 John 4:17

The Kiss

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The First Kiss,

A Breath...

Creator pressing His lips into Clay

Bellows bringing to Life,

Stoking the soul,

Blowing into Blaze

the Sacred fire in the Beloved

Mouth to Mouth

The lips of The Original Lover
Awakened Love
Animated Spirit

Enlivened the lifeless

And made One of two...

....As all good kisses do

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"The Lord God formed man, breathed into him, and man became a living being, complete in body and in spirit."

Genesis 2:7