Extensions of the Girl

She was eminently qualified in numbers  
Held fast to the beliefs in physical objects  
Felt every molecule down to her mortal soul
Religion guided Sue through water and soil
Down in the mud of love 
Prayer lined up on the side of God
A tool most useful in the invisible realm

If not

She was locked in tangibles
Sherlocked away to wait for Easter
Buried under a stone most uncomfortable
Undetected
To be deduced, from what is and what is not

Thereby order could be restored on Sunday
Drilled down to the atomic level of abomination
Established first by logic in the seventeenth century
Light won't pass through the ways of reason
Being solid as it stands

Where souls split into the Adam unnatural at Evening
All men are created equal to their mortal core

The Iliad and Odyssey are read and dead 
In another language long and gone

Sue knows Greek as a 5 letter word 
Greek know Sue more than you know  

Trojans were of another kind of clan
Spoke Luwian at length
Cuneiform or hieroglyphic characters carved

Souls starved for more attention than misunderstanding 
Stood out in their own reflection 
Crawled home in a holy hole for protection

Flashlights are not prescribed for reading Homer
We recommend Sue's interpretation of the past
 
Objects in Archeological pockets are counted
Sins glow in the dark inspected
Calculated to the numerical physicality of being
Extolled by Sue who knows such things
Gold is found without tools to grasp the meaning
Souls unearthed remain with words unspoken
English is not an ancient tongue
Extensions take the dig
Can only go so far
Sue knows who you are
Before it starts
Copyright © | Year Posted 2016

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