Do You Plato The Body? Poem by Ben Gieske

Do you Plato the body?
– as if the soul is everything.
Isn’t it the opus of God,
the Michelangelo of clay?

Do you tramp on sex?
– as if it is just a necessity.
Isn’t it the Grand Design of the
Bonus Creator?

Do you Halloween your emotions?
– as if it’s Eve’s disgrace.
Didn’t the Lord weep at Lazarus’ tomb?

Do you obliterate the past of a parent?
– as if the Almighty did not choose
the hour of creativity.

Do you choose to be the idol of the God in which you believe?
– as if you are designing the better world.

Do you enclose your God of belief inside your walls and fences?
– as if s/he should not choose to let evolve an Ubermensch.

And all the time you lift up your song to the “Almighty” and “Omnipotent”.

Do you praise only the “what’s been”?
– as if there is no future for the “will be” or “could be”.

Can you let your faith be a waterfall of creativity?
– in God’s resting to leave us to carry on
– in his/her generosity of giving us more than we need use
– in him/her who wants all children to have a bit of the action and fun

His/Hers is the infinite and absolute
Lets us play with the finite and relative
not wanting to muddy His/Her hands
resting to clean up later the mess we make

- Aug.7,2008