Stretching

People like form and a perceived order delights

If out of some chaos of incompatible lines

Any pattern appears its gifted ease will soon appeal

No eye likes to be faced with what it cannot fathom

Understanding life’s piercing swiftlight can only come

Through belief that in it is some unforeseen beauty

Waiting in seeming complexity to be found out simple

In simply believing here was something greater 

For out of darkness God commanded the light to shine

That the best of any knowing come only of faith

So that what it chooses to love without understanding

Can have an inner working greater than any straighter thing

In the end it will be those who have dared who win

Those who swallowed walls and were willing to be stretched

It is all in the stretching my spirit’s capacities expand 

Left without it I think I’m right and tied stay shrunk