Old Time Religion

 

 

I don't know

for certain if

there is a God

 

or god or goddess

or pantheon

(if you will)

 

of skyward

or earthbound

divinities,

 

but I do know when

time and space

are savored

 

open-heartedly

and slow

 

in this stew

of experience

we call the Real,

 

it doesn't matter

to me what's

ultimate

or not,

 

besides last

night's rain

and today's

 

blue dome

overhead

 

and those

kids'

 

from the

neighborhood

 

gleeful squeals

wildly

 

announcing

themselves 

 

in play and sweet

entrancing

song

 

on the park's

moist and

glistening

 

green

green

green

 

grass.