Eternal Life

How beautiful
to see eternity stretch before us

Infant to child
to adolescent
to adult
to elderly
to the earth once more

We return home
and back to life
over and over

Many lives
Many guises

Eternal life
All of us
Here
Forever

Sensory Intake

So easy to rip, cut, and bruise.

A blanket for flesh,


a covering for a temporary vessel.

An experience of the world,


a movie palace built for one.

Camera's capture sensory detail


to an internal hard drive,

no back up provided.


No warranty

for the basic model,


a unique experience

is guaranteed.

Knocking Over The Table

We were nothing more 
than a jigsaw puzzle laid 
out on a table.
We fell apart once the
table was knocked over.
We didn't have the strength
to put it back together.

Eternal Life

Light breaks through ashen gray clouds
on sunday morning.
People have been awake for hours,
dressing instinctively at the sound
of the pealing bells.
Standing in front of the gathered
congregation he delivers
his sermons. Gone are the tones
of damnation, rather, the promise
of eternal life. There is a boy
sitting and fidgeting in a pew,
wondering if eternal life
really exists.
He quickly forgets
and thinks to himself
"I can't wait til we get some waffles
after church."