Kit Kelen #1332 - over our heads 2

1332

over our heads 2

for godsbother

eyes upward to wonder

was what my father had

thought of prayer pointed like that

all a question towards hope

and can’t be for yourself

but you get to visit the silence

he said certain naïve things

and this encouraged me

mysteries are all we hold

why rocket ship?  why car?

It wasn’t always

then war

why love?

a question is my joy

steam seems to flow

through a shadow the sun casts

but this is the dust in fact

some were born to the business

and also serve who wish

there was always a sadness I couldn’t know

begin with a loss but can’t pay it on

and up above so high

in the rigging, say

was sometimes rain obscured

stars fell, a comet stuck

like time still there

we never once caught on

good doubt – the kind I profess

with a vengeance

like the weather

and so gives rise to superstition

princes of it preen

but know no more

than how fear’s made

I honour the mystery

it has no book

some of the words should be a puzzle

we make them from the world

bird sat in a tree for telling

in the garden for a while then I was the sky

dream still in the pillow upstairs

it’s just out of habit I’m here