I Should Have Seen It Coming
I should have seen it coming –
but more often the obvious
is yet only viewed through a cloak
of personal affections and
ignorance –
I should have seen it coming
but the heart is a clown
a camp of favorite characters
the real covered-over beneath
enticing glitter of circus-tents and
performance dreams
I should have seen it coming
but light and dark are only
the messengers of vision
love and hate
from the dugout of far deeper passions
And what if one did see it coming?
Is not blindness the free-will choice
of a spirit-soul, God having sent us to earth
oblivious His methods and reasons
giving us literature and faith
in their stead...
Should we think and reason better
than our Maker? Nay!~ Love, needs
no vision, outside itself –
Its own omnipotence and divine
dissolution....
(Feb, 2 – For the I Shoulda Seen It Comin' Poetry Contest of John Lawless)
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