Creative Strategies for a Godless Reality

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We gave the night back to the stars

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We gave the night back to the stars

Creative Strategy #14: Get Now

Patrick O'Leary
Jul 29, 2022
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We gave the night back to the stars

stuck on their unfathomable trajectories,

accelerating into the everywhere

like a teenage game of chicken on the highway

somewhere out there in their dusty churn, my love,

spin everything that was and will be

eternity enough for particles like me.

I’ve given back the mystery to god.

I consent to take the world as it is,

to live a life of discovery, dear,

& disenchantment.

To see things as they are as best we can.

Our life is short, barely a blink.

Our tiny world spins on. You have my hand

our love fills all mystery like a vacuum

which is no tiny trick.

We will take whatever crumbs are left

until in time we become the same, stardust,

the residue of living.

—Patrick O’Leary 7/29/22

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Katherine
Jul 30, 2022

Beautiful!!

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