ACCESSIBLE EXPERIENCE-:-
rationality
intuition
cognitive
active
awareness
in LAYERS OF MEANING
symbolize
apparent
abstract
expanding
energy
adding REALMS OF FEELING
action
happenings
succinctly
The button has not worked for three months.
Someone filed the plan.
Someone approved the form.
Someone put up the sign and called it done.
Not done.
We know the ramp.
We know the sky above it
the same sky you called beautiful the day you cut the ribbon,
the day the photographs were taken.
We built our day around the sign's promise.
We got here.
The door did not open.
There is a number to call
we have called it.
A form to fill
we have filled it.
A ticket number rusting in a queue behind things more urgent than a door that will not open.
More urgent than this?
A promise is not a plan.
Not a ribbon,
not a form,
not a ticket number rusting in a queue.
A promise is a door that opens.
Fix it.
Not once, for the photograph.
On the Tuesday no one watches,
with the toolkit,
with the person who comes back,
because someone will be here tomorrow who needs this to work.
Beauty is not the opening day.
It is the maintenance.
The fixing.
Again.
And again.
For as long as people need to cross.
Having a future would soon take its toll…
My reality is doomed as my capacity becomes full.
They say all I need is hidden inside me.
But that part of me is guarded and can only be opened with surgery.
Only by tearing my tissues apart.
And cutting the harsh fabric of skin like art.
Will an ability be revealed?
Will cutting my flesh access a gift that is healed?
But all that hurts too much to reach.
And maybe some things were not meant to be leeched.
A-ccessible
R-oad
C-reates
E-asy
L-ife
B-ringing
R-apture
I-nto
M-otorists
O-f
N-ation
Topic: Birthday of Arcel A. Brimon (May 17)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
10/13/12
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Man will always fall short
As long as they use their own wisdom
Be thankful for our access to God’s wisdom
Read it—and stay by it
But most of all, LIVE it
*inspired by Jerry Degier*
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