James Long Poet Prose Poetry

~ What Then Could Be? ~ Part #2

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~~ Looked- ~~
~~ down-deep- ~
~~~~ within ~~~~
~~~ cried- ~~~
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~~~~
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  ~~~~~~~~~~ out-for-Jesus-itself, for-the-first -~~~~~~~~~ 
  time no please;- ~~    no ... no more;- ~~ please Jesus, God-  
make-it stop;-        carrying-with-it ...            and knowing-
for certain;-            if-but-for-but-only-              a-moment- 
the-painful-            ~~~~~~ result ~~~~~              of its flight
from this                ~~~~~ truth;- ~~~~~                from its  
                  listless, and-purely-                  
                senseless, movement-                
                ~~~~ of aggression,  ~~~                
sharing the-feeling also- 
~~ felt;-by its devotion to ~ 
~ this, by ~~            ~ allowing ~    
~~ itself-to-live              exclusively, 
~ in-this-fruitless              indifference, 
and-truly stubborn,            and inconclusive;-
~~~  erroneous, ~~~            ~~~~ illusion! ~~~~

~ And what if, it did long to ~~
know and moved, never to forget;- 
the-humble-cry-from-the-hearts, 
the-needs-of-the-many, hurting, 
the innocent answered, living, 
dying, fading away amid the- 
battle, raging-war-on-them- 
~ inside-its-eroding prison;  
~ amid the echos of their ~
souls emptiness;- hoping, 
praying-quietly-to-have-
the-righteous-comfort- 
~ of-their-lost-lives- ~
~~ again ensured. ~~
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~ Screaming out why, ~
~~~ far-and-wide-high-and-
low-in-the-dark;- trembling;- 
alone ... in the cold, searching-
~ franticly, for the truth ... lost;-  
~ gone awry, totally amiss, being ~
the only obvious, driving question,
~pounding away ... relentlessly;- ~ 
~stripping-them-of-their-freedom 
~  squandering-the-treasures of- ~
~~ their-stolen-security;- ~~
~ and fullness-of-spirit. 
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~ So what if love, joy, 
and hope, honesty and
patience;- consideration, 
~ generosity mercy and- ~
forgiveness, compassion- 
~~ and unconditional- ~~
~~~~ understanding, ~~~~
~~~~ and the-beauty- ~~~
~~ revealed-in the-way ~~
~~ of their-faithfulness- ~
~~ to-the-very-principal ~
~~ of-remaining-open, ~~
~~ brought-bitter-hate- ~
~ to-its-knees;- to finally,  
~ acknowledge-this;- and  
in surrendering;- it was- ~
~ transformed-and made-
~ again through-this to-be 
~~ accepting, and was ~~ 
~ willing, to work as well, 
setting-them-free-living-
~ as-one-with-them, as it 
strived for the perfection,  
the protection;- of these 
~~ greater things? ~

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