The lineBetween
Here and There
Now and Then
Does not exist
In the way
We think,
Enamored,
As we are,
With what
We think.
Instead
Of what
He thinks.
The Majesty
Of the moment
Is in every
Clock’s tick
Our opportunity
Our responsibility
Our urgency
To live
As if
Tomorrow
We die
[We will]
Yet our life
Counts forever;
Our life given for
The instant, Eternal.
I have been pondering Bono’s Surrender over the past weeks. His words have sparked my words, poetry gushing each morning. A cutting here prompted the poem “Instant Eternal,” one that should call us all to consider now and Then, here and There.“Andy Warhol went to Mass every Sunday and volunteered in New York food kitchens all through his life. He never talked about God, but his first work and his last work were religious. In the art dictionary, you find that pop was about the death of God because if there’s no eternal, then we must live in the instant. But the job of art is making the instant eternal” (p 332).