DAVE READS THE SUNDAY MORNING MOEBUS STRIPS

1
From here
You can get to eternity
But only if you stay
Here
Within
Hearing distance
Of the moment’s
Voice


2
Every
Where
You go
Is a kind of
Afterlife
For the latest life
You have outlived
And shed
Like a skin


3
Wisdom is knowing
When it’s time
To leave
Well enough
Alone


4
You weigh practically
Nothing on the moon
Which is the weight loss
Space can bring
To outer life
But somehow
That paunch
Remains
A reminder of
An inner life
That is still
far from weightless


5
Try true life on earth
Where
Weight loss
Can be
A permanent
Gain


6
When clouds cover the glaring moon
They derail trains of thought
That were probably headed for
Auschwitz.
When clouds cover the sun
They bring a darkness
Where no one can find you
But yourself.


7
The dew-drenched grass
Gives new grounds
For Being.


8
His father
Was a communist
Who named names
Then changed his own
As a form of
Witness protection


9
To cite scripture
To mock or disprove
The evidence
Of your own senses
Is a form of
Witness tampering.


10
On your best days
You feel like
You will live forever
In splendor
And on your worst days
You feel like
You will live forever
In shame



11
Stop thinking about God
As something
That can be proven
True or false
Rather than proof of a
Persistent need
For more than
What is already there
And always within
Reach


12
The world
Is what God sees
With practiced steady gaze
No different from
Yours or mine
Once we learn
To look
With our own eyes


13
No need
For a second opinion
As long as first things
Keep coming first
To give
A fresh start


14
Bird songs
Are music lessons
Passed from
Parent to child
Until the young learn
To sing
On their own


--David Federman, Ardmore, PA, June 2, 2019