The Usefulness of a Cup is in it's Emptiness

The Usefulness of a Cup is in it's Emptiness or stealing a march on the zen Buddhists

                                            Jan 5^th, 2016 400 little words

There's many a slip between cup and lip, you may have heard it said,

what we forget is no one gets the final word even after we make our bed,

we forget the simple facts of life because we fail to see,

we cannot match what the Creator made when the world first came to be,

we want to think that we can do what God has already done,

- create a world of full of life and wonder and power it with the sun,

we think we are way more clever than the plan that is already made,

but it is only our own arrogance that keeps us down in the shade,

in this world not of our making, in this life that thrives under God's sky,

we are blissfully ignorant of all our gifts and the many reasons why,

we were tasked to fly love's banner, and to keep the water pure,

and we deny the truth of all we know preferring just to endure,

all the ways we delude ourselves and buy the company line,

that if we listen to our smug leaders, everything will surely be fine,

but in our hearts we know the truth, that none of us have all the answers,

we need to listen to our sisters and to know we are just the dancers,

in the parade that started long ago beyond the reach of what we comprehend,

there is a melody in our heads and hearts that carries all we intend,

and wraps us up in a finer fabric than our logic can unfurl,

though we live oblivious to the gift and dumb to the seashore's pearl,

there's always more than we can do or that the livelong day allows,

our reach always exceeds our grasp after our words and our wows,

whatever we think, it's more than that, and yet be our spirits nimble,

the sum total of all we know would not fill a tiny thimble,

fingertips can feel to grip the handle of a cup,

take care to exercise all your senses when you often sup,

thank the Good Lord and pray our Creator will still take us back

after we get more humble and include a place for all we often lack.