Hymn For No Purpose

consider
that in the moment of first God
there was a command

HOLD WITHIN YOU
ALL THAT CAN BE SPOKEN
AND CONTAIN ALL THAT IS IMAGINABLE

consider
how far you’ve fallen behind
in your answering to that urging

consider the islands of Madagascar and Langerhans
the homes of True Miracles
and that they both exist

consider the gospel of holy Bacteria
suited to living anywhere on or under Earth
and what could they have to teach you

then think of how the white bloom on your tongue
embodies a plague of unspeakable beauty
within that paste they know who they are

and how when the slime molds crown
they are the exalted seat of Paradise
forging their future from wreck

so when it is time to lie down and decay
comfort yourself as you’ll be at last the perfection of Acolyte
and can consider without fear the God you’ve denied till then