Neither Presumption Nor Despair

May 7, 2025

We can’t make

all the bad things

good

Just knowing

all that didn’t

should

We can’t wish

what stays real

away

Or lie

to keep the truth

at bay

Yesterday

today

tomorrow yield

The leavened

‘Word’

forever sealed

Ad infinitum

minus

one

Salvation’s

path

— is zero sum

(Sister Marcella: 8^th Grade Religion Class, 1962)

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