violence and peace both work
Janet Kuypers
12/9/16
“We look up to the stars,
and we reach out and pray...”
- Matt Johnson
In ancient times
people looked up to the stars
and saw heaven.
Then they looked up to the stars
and created gods
etched to battle through the ages
in constellations.
Through time,
the one thing I’ve discovered
is that
wherever we see peace and
tranquility,
where everything works, and
falls into place,
you can see the bad there too,
almost like
you can’t have one without
the other.
I imagine, if I ever got into
heaven,
it would be missing all of the vices
we love.
Even though I don’t gamble,
I’m sure
it wouldn’t be allowed there,
and I couldn’t
get a good German Riesling
wine, or even
a good Weise beer. What a jip.
the afterlife
is so boring. I like to sing, but
If I have to
sing Kumbaya one more time...*
And if
there’s a poetry open mic in Heaven,
I’m sure all
you’d hear are the Psalms of David,
over and over,
since that’s the only poetry in the Bible.
In other words,
what works for some, might not
work for others.
Because when we look to the stars,
find peace,
admire the tranquility of stars
in the night sky,
we don’t realize that those stars
are actually
evil, always exploding giants.
What we see
are often post-explosion nebula
catastrophes
with temperatures hotter than
you could imagine.
We look up to what we can’t reach
and see peace
and tranquility, where everything
works together.
But if we look closer, we can see
the violence
there too, and we can see how
perfectly
that bad stuff fits in as well.
* “Heathers”
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