Scrabble

well stay up all night and play scrabble with God
who made the worlds if he doesnt mind
and maybe well find out what words are for

that we must live down to the last syllable
Shakespeare said the last syllable of Time
time recorded not distorted

not forced to serve Me and Mine
time all his and snowing lilting lovely
lilied time and the light even in shadow

merest spark of it prevailing
even child scared in the dark is you

the one flower He would pick
so that we know the Word  as wick
of the candle that can't burn down

ourselves reflected there
and that we are made or unmade
by the words we say and we mean

not in the time clocked sense
not in the spinning the strange game winning the dressed to impress
inside, where you are and you only with no props

what we are being what we are meaning
not catching as catch can
not by words, but by what we understand

we spell it out the Word we learned
even in crayon lettering, but Heard
as we hear him. by hand

one bright Word we are
heartfelt in that meaning by His command

we are

irrevocable as Christ
the best word spoken the sentence ending
the new phrase beginning

awkward but even so real

according to His and not our own zeal
we are the sheep of his greening

and not the gleaming of the two faced coin.

mary angela douglas 13  august 2019