The Upside Down Watch

and the Love of God

 

Will time run backwards

if I wear my watch upside down on my wrist?

Will I return to innocence?

What good would that be?

 

I can call it up.

It is not gone away.

I can pet the dog and the cat.

And know nothing.

 

To be the naked sailor

Who has only his body

to live in after a shipwreck

Is what I am.

 

I am On Watch!

Running Forwards and Backwards on the Beach

Doomed to isolation

My screams muted by wind and sky and distance.

Hoping for rescue and hungry for touch.

 

Is God Lonely?

Of course God is not lonely.

Is God lost?

If he is, unhealthy he does not care.

 

Dying to be with God, pills

Or in paradise is not as great as being in heavan now.

I need a new watch.

The one I have is losing time.