"HOW LARGE"

One of the few I come back to read, from time to time, to remember what's happening and how He moves.

How large the unfulfilled promise
when every other promise is begotten
and heartily lived in

You have bent shape
to what I thought was doomed
while other people just get different things:
I look at their children
while I have everything else

Well, the only real “everything” is eternity
and the only solver is dying, so for now,
let me just be good and kept good,
yelp and eat and scramble good

Tousle my way toward the things
you never said would never be
while you were shocking
and settling me

Tug a deeper love from me
Fill your house with the things I bring by,
which are just your things
that I have fallen with, chipped,
and you kiss them

J.W.