Given…Free Will

By J. Lillie

Divine Interruptions, repetitions

Seasons

 Spring

 Summer

 Fall

 Winter

Life

Death

All gather at the wedding or casket.

Always the same, crazy drunk dancers

Shy

Wall

Flowers,

Baked

Stuffed

Chicken

And

Green bean

Almondine.

We can’t escape the circle.

I can’t say, “I won’t walk the circumference of the dance floor”

Neither can you. But still we say it.

I

Will not

Be

Moved. I

Will

Break the

Cycle.

We end up on the other side anyway,

Having never moved at all, or run at it

Like some desperate groom chasing his bride.

Some old man chasing oxygen from plastic tubes.

Calendar

Script

Schedule

Liturgy

Agenda

Cycle

Circle of Life

Guided Tour

Itinerary

Every vacation, work week, church service,

math problem, sentence, curriculum, culture,

biology, clock, world, solar system,

galaxy, universe, cell, family dinner,

 baseball game, track meet, sermon, and campaign

Has its order

Prelude

Introit

Welcome

Invocation, Gospel, Law, communion, committal, after party

Drawing us to our ends. We are all stuck

In the Divine equation, wedding, funeral

We are all stuck with our free will.