There was a chapter in which
everything was sacrificed
exceeding all previous attempts
no matter how valiant
In the end nothing more
could be done, or done better
with provisions on hand,
that once seemed adequate
Everything, in its fullness
was undressed, made naked
and reduced to nothing
with torches in the shadows
That was the microsecond
when the wind stopped
the boom crossed the bow
and the heading changed forever
A new word, almost,
took its place in the credo
an unwritten proposition
the better part of wisdom
To give everything is to leave
no margin for grace or self
or compatriots to shoulder
their part of the load.
Almost carves out the space
everything does not, its crowded
grasp too much, too easily taken,
mistaken and forsaken
Making God everything
means giving everything else
less than everything,
almost everything, enough
©Tim Carson, January 22, 2011
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