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Poems

Somethingness

From the May 2012 issue of The Christian Science Journal


The nothingness of error
is the somethingness of good?
How nothing equals something
I have never understood.
But now it’s been explained to me.
It’s finally sinking in . . .
If error equals evil
and evil equals sin,
but God is omnipresent,
then how does sin get in?
It obviously doesn’t
unless we make it real
and how can we make something
out of nothing? What’s the deal?
If error equals zero,
error’s neither plus nor minus;
error’s neither wide nor narrow.
It has neither low- nor high-ness.
So giving strength to error
is ridiculously odd
since there’s no room for anything
but goodness, good, and God.

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