For Those Who See: Creative Platypus

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For Those Who See

Those who See
Echo Divinity
Wisdom
Love
Might
Crucified on the World
And for the World
In the burning dream
of William Blake
Painted with Autumn leaves
Summer sunsets

There is meaning in the
Fall of a sparrow
or the expiration of a flea
Did you have courage
to stand there when Life
Passed out of them in gasps
and a spasm?
Then you are like your Creator
Who hung stars and suns
as Eyes that do not shut
Burning Seraphim

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