What If the Cross Set God Free?

I’m away from the blog this week, and I’ve asked my friends to fill in. This is a poem by my dear friend, Michael Toy.

wonderful plans

god loves you and
has a wonderful plan
for your life
it is helpful, when
saying that
to be illuminated
from above
or have just finished
transmuting wine

otherwise it just
sounds stupid
when one looks
at the many things
which are not wonderful

any salt worthy
theologian will have
a well rehearsed
interpretive dance
set to
the meter of
a world of pain
the melody of
a god of love

if it is not possible
to deviate from
the plan, then
this is all part
of the plan and i
no longer care
about plan or planner
no matter how
lovely the dance
interpreting it

if the plan
does not constrain
then the story goes
like this
childlike humanity
terrible twos of
curiosity and defiance
parental planner
warning, reminding,
correcting, insisting
and then a flood of anger
followed by a promise

which means the next
time, there is no flood,
the pain of watching
becomes unbearable and
eventually blossoms
into insanity
the new plan is
brilliant
will show them
will show them all

you want death? i
can do that, death
is freedom
free at last
from planned promises
free at last to
say, wild-eyed,
god
loves you and if
he had a wonderful plan
for your life, this
would not be it