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Poems

Transformed

From the February 1983 issue of The Christian Science Journal


And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple; who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms. (Acts 3:2, 3)

Acting out a misconception
(fettered by womb-tomb theory)
of birthright,
with his sense of substance
apparently locked in a
to-beg-to-bed routine,
limitation was the verdict—
birthright: crippled capacity/aborted career
substance: contorted limbs/chancy income.

But Peter and John saw beyond
a calendared, cramped circuit,
for it was inconceivable
that time and matter
could circumscribe man's origin
and support.

In an instant,
his daily persistence and expectancy
were turned from matter to Spirit.
They took him off the (silver and) gold standard,
and revealed man's native worth;
not dependent on the state
or foot traffic
or economic cycles.

They saw man replete,
not hopeless—having all good
not defective—confirming,
evidencing God
(man's forever Father-Mother)
his birthright: dominion.

And those limp limbs leaped
in verification of transformation

Beautiful!

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