The Vibrant Channeled Creator

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2023
 
“God is close, compassionate and tender. Closeness, compassion and tenderness: treat people like that, personally caring for them, learning their language, respecting and loving their culture, not allowing yourselves to be tempted by worldly forms of security, but remaining steadfast in the Gospel through exemplary moral and spiritual lives. Simplicity and closeness! ” Pope Francis

Your Eyes

Chimpanzee reclining in your tree,
gazing solemnly at me
through brown eyes, ancient, wise,
I wonder what you see.

We’re not so different, you and I.
I imagine, when I try,
you in clothes, me in the tree,
giving you the eye.

I wonder if your soulful gaze
is telling me you feel the days
are warmer than they used to be,
because of human ways.

Somehow things have gone awry.
I wonder if chimpanzees cry.
Your eyes, so sad, I think you know,
your world is passing by.

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