Some
who would walk on the water
must have a boat deck intervene.
Some who would transcend time
feel dependent on scrapbooks
and clocks (or fantastic
imagined machines), not knowing that Jesus
talked with Moses
through the effortless, natural inclusiveness
of elevated thought.
Some, unaware
of their own deep desire to be buoyed
by boundless bright oceans of affluence,
are concerned
about next month's bills.
Afraid to abandon a limited means
they begin to lose touch
with man's glorious end, and would then
sigh out their muddled and spiritless praise
to something so much less
than God.
