Be Present at the Creation

Be Present at the Creation

            1.   As grade-schoolers a few of us could report with delight

                  and big wide eyes events that were stranger than fiction.

            2.   We hadn’t been there, but had heard of them from

                  others and could relay them in small club-like gatherings.

            3.   Some adults say they’ve taken a leap of faith with no

                  assurances and are astounded at the bounty, spiritually

                  and temporally.

            4.   There’s the calling for each one of us—I believe that

                  surely—but we can refuse.

            5.   Not availing ourselves of the risk, to not step into the

                  mystery when it’s presented, is the grinding down of a

                  counterfeit safety.

            6.   A toe in the water is kindergarten, perhaps a start or

                  merely a sop.

            7.   What is the world showing you?

There

It’s one thing

to have a curiosity

and satisfy it—

say, how massive

construction machinery

gets built.

What, though, to make

of bolts from the blue?

A long absent friend appears

in your thoughts

and one day soon,

on the street before you.

A piece of work—

that fits your gifts—

leaps forward

from a phone call.

A last minute idea

wriggles free

at the moment

of delivery,

sprinkling fairy dust.

A casual question you raise

opens a new world.

            So, truth told,

            you’ve been there . . .

            what do you

            make of it,

            really.

            this time?

© 2012 Allan Cox, Allan Cox & Associates Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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