A twig of love

A twig of love

"If God is God, God isn't good.

If God is good, God isn't God."

These words ring out

as life's challenge

to a Different experience..

Our settled beliefs

from innocent years

'tho threatened
 by struggle and loss

 still may shout 
of independence

with attachments intact..

Yet the occasional
fright and unease

of a missing something

begins our search..

From going to and fro

in the earth
 from walking up and
down on it

to at last discover
our beliefs can burn

in a tired ash heap..

A twig of love
from the ruin springs..
Now we recognize:

That which we
 always have been...