(..and the wonderful Art of Archery)
There are the thought processes..
borne within depths, similar to a near psychosis.
Muse.. within its deepest forms, can bring one
into the Realms of the surreal..
which in truth.. are the Realms of the very very real.
Those who fight within those Realms, carry upon
their very own persons, the casualties of war
that most are wholly unable to see.. or even feel.
Within one's own, Inheritance..
we take on from another--
through empathy,
levels of pain, and darkness
that are far beyond the ability
of all current human word's description.
Even the shortest detachment
from the everyday normal,
such as time away of any kind,
puts us risk of being plunged into,
not only the Realms..
but into the empty spaces
between those realms.
And through it all,
we are somehow meant to survive
this far too often harsh, and empty world--
With our Magical Spirits..
and God-given Inheritance, intact.
"..And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram called
the name of his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.
The child grew and was weaned,
and on the day Isaac was weaned,
Abraham held a great feast
..But he became distressed over the way that his son
Ishmael was being treated.
But God said to him,
“Do not be so distressed about the boy
and your slave woman.
I will make the son of the slave into a nation also,
Because he is your Offspring."
Early the next morning Abraham took some food
and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar.
He set them on her shoulders,
and then sent her off with the boy.
She went on her way
and wandered in the Desert of Beersheba
When the water in the skin was gone, she put the boy
under one of the bushes. Then she went off
and sat down about a bowshot away, for she thought,
“I cannot watch the boy die.”
And as she sat there, she began to sob.
God heard the boy crying,
and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven
and said to her,
“What is the matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid;
God has heard the boy crying as he lies there.
Lift the boy up and take him by the hand,
for I will make him into a great nation.”
Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water.
So she went and filled the skin with water
and gave the boy a drink.
God was with the boy as he grew up..
He lived in the desert
and became an Archer."
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