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Intent 2


Malachi 3:18 

18 Then once more you will see that I make a distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between the one who serves God and the one who does not.

 

Intent 2

 

Discerner of thought ... oh what a call!

To seek its own origination

Did we trigger the thought first of all

and then its interpretation?

 

My cup runneth over ... in thought that is

Even a bucket appears way too small

Worse than a can of worms it seems

Similarities with the pains after a fall

 

Do I credit myself for my thoughts

and treat it as a common thing?

Constantly thinking evil you know

brought the Flood and now destruction within

 

If all good things come from God

evil must come from the other

So where do thoughts originate?

Should I even bother?

 

Intent of the heart triggers thought

but how is the heart defined?

Is thought already a part of it

and a reflection already inclined?

 

Words flowing on paper directed by reason

or even beyond as it seems

From powers beyond preparing a season

to the lost and the redeemed

 

If sponges we are to what we absorb

what than flows out through the wringer?

The good and the bad intertwined and mixed up

in a flow to a pond where smell lingers?

 

To die to ourselves and to be buried so deep,

that keeps us from digging  out by ourselves,

is the answer in understanding forms of coma or sleep

and the nightmares which show the foretaste of hell?

 

Jan Wienen

 

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