- Jeremiah 23:23-24
If I run to the Sangre de Cristo mountains
and
disappear in New Mexico high desert sage
even the
hummingbirds will buzz your presence
if I scuba
dive and snorkel off of Cozumel
and touch a
Queen Angel and stroke a spotted eagle ray
there you
are, breathing and bubbling along
if I hide in
my cerebral mess and wallow in pain
and push
away with hands and feet any incarnate love
or busy my
life with work and finance and hobby
and distract
myself with tweets and digital friends
there you
are, grabbing hold of me in the now of awareness
in the being and the self-deception and the running
will I
finally find peace from the one who haunts
and never
lets go of the chase or the hand or truth
if I cannot
escape this unbearable holiness
will I ever
submit to its infinite and infinitesimal reality
and float in its mysterious salt-water buoyancy
or will it
kill me first, and I end up exactly there anyway
A question most vexing! I believe it will.
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