If Thou take not our hands,
and feet,
our bodies
hosting ghostly minds,
our organic inside communion lives
flowing out emphatic communication love
We cannot continue to fail,
to fear,
to feel tired,
retired,
weary,
untreaded,
worn,
unpleasant,
numb.
When I try to sing this earnest prayer
with only my heady voice
from the neck up,
following all correctly crowned notes,
judiciously following lines of predicted pitch
and regulated rhythm,
this feels secularized,
segregating,
dissociated,
dissonant,
disembodied
divisive
desperately diminishing
re-ligioning integrity's potential
health...
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