Doulos apo Christou
April 12, 2019
Freely, do a wheelie, on a song bee, in the mind
Predicate a room, for a new broom, an avocation in the will
And grace of trust asks us sweet tasks a grateful life to fill;
For your commission lives-in, with collision, a wideworld serpentine
Nor by decision in brusque derision make debate, delay,
Be brisk; debase noway not least slightest permission, pray
A servant be your soul, its fire a love, a living passion,
Opened to choice, though a still small voice provides appoints and fashions
Sought for, the straight path, level ground pursuing
Fought for the marguerite of price, anon another’s wooing
Journeymen, workingwomen, form his Provident dithyramb
Attendant obedient listening for The Creator’s saraband
The Lord of the Dance advancing Heaven’s kingdom by his themes
And you a piano note or triplet, augmenting his means
Are easy-agreed, conformable, as much as is ‘of course’
Keeping the keys of liberty, but enclosured as of choice
The remaindered shifts are shards of opportune diversity
Scattered and widespread here and there wrapped up in world
In packagings and gift wraps, little bows and glistening spurs,
Things being whim-picks, shopping hauls; or led all-night in bars
As under-counter contrabands, clandestine imitations,
Like as does explanation hint excuse in its broad wake
Or offered up self-righteousness brings debacle, and night
These, our displacement venues, hold false flags in vase which leaks
Bought branded and at cost not lost on reconsideration
Sub-standard goods, white-rabbit-holes, proliferating in
World’s vacuous amenity, of profligate contagion,
Where treacle-wells exasperate, curate no praise collegium,
Parking lots shoulder vehicles, standing emptied overnights
Taking up natural spaces which had daisies else and oaks,
Call this a dead place, in dead time, a necessary blank,
Marvins on Mars likewise we’re parked, docked, dissipating prime
And then when, dark erased, the blooming sun erupts elating
Breaking to us new day, and winning hope from cheer comes-in
Cares having wound dire canards, show sooth-bards deemed now relapsing;
Stacked avatars on Mars, all dight with stars, perk-up, away!
Brewed doubts redacting