Skipping Stones That Never Sink

The world whirls and breaks like a heart 

into floating splinters with water from the depths filling the cracks and canyons and on the surface 

no one knows what makes friends friends except the common colors and dimensions 

that make us wait for love 

no don’t 

run for it 

lavish it 

until the world breaks again 

from more love than can be held in the valleys and basins of a mother’s arms

overflowing flooding extinguishing distinguishing

the hatred of enemies for what it is and then it is gone for it should not exceed the love for children

but it does but it does

still, still, still

and carries the weight of the world into greater heaviness crushing the babies’ heads 

the sisters and little brothers scream until they have no strength and 

there is darkness and tears and gnashing of teeth and 

the earth heaves and wretches at the wretchedness 

that makes houses shake and fountains flow and wash away the trash and leave trash and 

nothing matters except cash except that’s false and there is hope that is not false because love

always wins always

play that game with your spot of earth and the humans and creatures upon it 

welcome the stranger as a friend 

welcome the one welcome the two or three and dine with angels 

dine with the familiar and the strange 

until it all joins in your heart and we are all new because of you and

that love that love that love 

that love

that changes like skipping stones that never sink 

and there is courage and there is mercy and there is beauty 

even amidst the hungry stupor the gladiator games 

the big screens the sharp knives and tattered lives with

courage courage courage

comfort comes to

let there be light

let there be light let there be light 

let there be light

and the darkness will not last because it cannot last where there is light that shines 

and the darkness does not understand but gives way 

makes way for your God