If I will not take up that story of
real Life & Liberty, and live it out
then I will end up living for myself
right here within this culture, I don't doubt.
I see that as I hear this story well
(I mean by that: "imagin-a-tively"),
Each story works as puzzle, that will tell
me something more about my life, and me.
But not in categ'ries all iron clad,
it's more suggestive, and with beckoning.
It offers options that i might have had,
ways of responding that i might now bring
to table, in negotiations soon.
It gives a chance to me to think, & see
life from the vantage of another room,
to understand my life objectively.
So as I see myself pictured in this-
here story I just heard - identify;
I let it's strength and wisdom hit or miss
me, and let out a smile, or hmmph, or sigh.
And if i take its medicine, and its food,
and drink, into myself, it starts to own
me, if that's not too candid, or too rude,
'cos culture comes through stories. Thus it's "shown".
But now I see that I must also make
it mine, as son or daughter of this one
who saw his life fulfilling God's own "take"
on ruling well, as Adam's flesh and bone.
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