Remember this beyond all else

 

Remember this beyond all else,

We know little else beyond what we are told,

Or what we read, and experience,

Small slights; and big slights,

Waves and breakers

Alter courses of our little boats,

Capsized and drowning,

Picked up (Hopefully),

By the big steamers,

Going in opposite directions,

And, I hope to God,

Like Earth,

It is a BIG circle,

Then we will,

One day,

Collide into the same conclusion…

Serious and sober,

Comical and farcical,

Combined into a wondrous,

Peace.

Until then that point must be God,

My hope is that the answer is not nothing (‘anything’, as Mrs. Wright would say),

And, Mrs. Wright WAS always right,

A double negative by anyone’s definition is wrong,

So God,

So GOD,

And, for now,

I thank you God!
 

 Peter Lowell Paulson

December 16, 2013

 

PS  Mrs. Marcia Wright was my English Literature teacher in High School.  She taught all of us to write correctly.  She would give us a quiz every day on our assignment from the previous day.  She would give us an “F” on our written test in we ever put a comma in the wrong place.  I received an “A” in both semesters!  Mrs. Wright is a friend to this day!