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God
desires. Personification
encourages
us to see a human
face
on God rather than a void sucking
us in to parent and provide missing
love
glue round all the world which is too too
big
for us, overwhelmingly huge HUGE—
and
so very intricate we succumb
to
the human images and forget
the
vast hunger that space and spirit have
without
needing to be personal first:
Hunger,
I say, but mean osmosis—we
osmose,
you osmose, it osmoses—and
anywhere
a border separates
having
from emptiness, DESIRE causes—
osmosis
occurs as a great sucking—
an
affective drawing toward and be-
ing
drawn occurs. Mutual Desire.
How
can, why do we resist and resist?
Consider
a landscape beautiful or
ravaged
by hurricane or tsunami:
how
it calls me and you and many to
enter
it and lavish our love on its
order
and disorder, its multitudes
and
solitude, its stubborn mystery
above
and beyond news stories and guide
books. Try not to think of Haiti gnawing your
spirit,
of your own children’s hunger.
Try
not to imagine blank paper want-
ing
words and pockets wanting lint and minds
wanting
thoughts and lips wanting kisses and
vampires
wanting blood and all creatures of
imagination
wanting stories. Try
not
wanting to give, Give GIVE worms to chicks
with
their mouths gaping and then, maybe, know
how
God desires to surround us with love,
desire, attraction and concrete gifts.
desire, attraction and concrete gifts.
Copyright © 2015 S.L.Chast
May we all follow the path of love of selflessness so that the world can be a better place.
ReplyDeleteSuch a broad perspective to uplift and expand one's vision. Well done, Susan! I especially like the final stanza, the worms into the chicks' mouths......and a God who surrounds us with bounty, once we open our eyes to see.
ReplyDeleteWow, Susan. Just wow.
ReplyDeleteThere are so much we can do.. Just have to do our best for fellow human beings.
ReplyDeleteThat's all very well but I only have words to give now!
ReplyDeleteperhaps it's because of the tradition that we are giving Him a face. No one really knows though how He looked like.
ReplyDeleteThis poem is a reminder of how lucky we are under His love.
I am sure the desire of God is that we surround others with love in the same way that He surrounds us with love. There are so many places......
ReplyDeleteWhat an amazing poem! I love that you present me with notions and images I hadn't previously considered. That whole hunger thing is so powerful.
ReplyDeleteI am not sure if this is what you meant but your poem reminds me of one of Abraham Joshua Heschel's book 'God in Search of Man'.
ReplyDelete'God desires to surround us with love,
ReplyDeletedesire, attraction and concrete gifts.' ~
it takes one's life to understand that the challenges were the gifts.....Thank you, Susan!
Back for another read, and this poem has such depths, and uses words so powerfully, it leaves me speechless when it comes to commenting. "the vast hunger that space and spirit have"....and the osmosis.......lots to think about. Especially the closing lines. Wow.
ReplyDeleteoh i think there are plenty of people, and many that proclaim to believe in God that do not give...
ReplyDeleteand perhaps that is part of the human...allowing our own discriminations to get in the way
of that connection to god...but we do it in the name of god as well...even the pain though of a haiti
is part of god...our minds wrestle with how or why...but there are things we will never understand...
I also love the ending with 'how God desires to surround us with love' ...so important to remember that as we are surrounded with our personifications of God.
ReplyDeleteProfound lines..wonderful message... :-)
ReplyDeleteYou did very well keeping the mystery "unveiled" :-)
ReplyDeleteZQ
very endearing bit of philosophy. god is in all of us, and we are all in god.
ReplyDeletePerhaps there is a difference between belief and religion..whatever we believe we all need love and kindness
ReplyDeleteA thoughtful poem, hope all think on similar lines
ReplyDeleteTry not to imagine blank paper want-
ReplyDeleteing words and pockets wanting lint and minds
wanting thoughts and lips wanting kisses and
vampires wanting blood and all creatures of
imagination wanting stories.
Great flow of thoughts...
mesmerizing words...full of life
Very interesting thought flow. I like the use of osmosis in this fashion.
ReplyDeleteInteresting write and a wonderful message!
ReplyDeleteSelflessness!
ReplyDeleteAnd a beautiful message there...