Breakthrough

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“The desire of the body is real desire, what God desires and this desire must seep through, break through from the body into the reluctant mind.

“The flesh is willing, but the spirit is weak.”  ~ R. H. Blyth, Haiku, vol. one, p. 238

When cleverness breaks through Christ’s wisdom, we

Feel free, freed up and human, free at last.

Enlightenment and serendipity

Command our minds and hearts.  A cracking blast

Destroys philosophies’ religions, all

That tortured us for long millennia.

The ancient books and preachers now appall

Us.  We dismiss them, ban them for many a

Refreshed eternity.  The parchment page

We burn.  It turns to incense in the world

Of human truth that waited, age to age,

To open up—and now it floats, unfurled.

  We do not need the spiritual fine words.

    We see them now for what they were, fine turds.

~ Phillip Whidden