Cantos of Communion

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Inspired by, and respoken with gratitude becoming, Spenser's "Cantos of Mutabilitie"

All relationships
steadfast monotheistic
become stagnant hate

And change becomes
rightly and left weighed
swayed animation
accelerated
and delayed
panentheistic.

Yet we are not entirely changed
from our first health wealthy estate,
transubstantiating positive
by our changed circumference
our becoming does dilate
and integrate,
regenerate

And, returning to our selves
at co-related length
and width
and depth again
each day through night

Do awake
to working play
our cooperative perfection
as if by compassion's fate

Inward,
outward
undulate.

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Jeff Kyser

Date: 10/15/2022 6:35:00 AM

Monotheism doesn't allow for the notion that we are our own gods, so I guess it does in fact produce hatred in the creature. Interesting way to state that - I guess Paul wrote in Romans 1 that 'they exchanged the truth about God for a lie', and 'became ... haters of God'.