Faith and Chocolate

our God is bountiful because Jesus is Robin Hood turning the tables in the forest temple and Friday treasures an island of hope in my child’s mind ‘you can be a pirate as long as you don’t turn a blind eye’ patches up sorrow and heartache tattooed in its wisdom bountiful when the snake shares a candy apple with Newton as everything hangs in the balance of gravity’s fallen sword when you remove the splinter from blind sighted cataracts before asking for a new lens without polishing your view bountiful when kind men from Mars soothe night terrors because aliens are friends and ride on Dinosaur’s wings the world becomes as you see it in the light of your dreams and the chocolate bar holds coconut filling every now and then bountiful when the cross rots away and nails get a grip onto new pastures and the sweet tasting promise of sacred droplets for tears are washed away in the face of anger ceding to faith and water baptizes the soil for small seeds to nourish the soul bountiful when the cocoa smeared lips’ immaculate smiles prepare innocence for that hardship of life bearing the fruit of patience resolve and happiness that derives from the source and chews at the gnawing feeling of doubt until it melts away our God is bountiful because … 11th November 2020