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Inspired by Leonard Cohen.

ImPerfect Offerings

A humbling human crack
in every theological 
God v Man
divine spirit v human nature
oppositional relationship

Monotheistic belief
in our sacred past,
religiously fine

but anti-polytheistic hope
desecrating Earth's polyculturally wealthy future,
irreligiously not OK.

Anthropocentric passion 
and sacred love pleasure
cognitively and intuitively fine,
but EarthCentric dispassion 
and organic life displeasure,
not cognitively or intuitively OK.

WE compassion
good-natured climate conservation
definitely fine,
but THEY dispassion
bad-spirited caste preservation
infinitely not OK

Cracks that whet
shared Light inside.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2025

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