Coffee - A Meditational Triptych

I've been up all night, with the red-eye flowing through my veins. So here is my tribute to it.

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I: Father, Creator

here is a bean - the earth was fed
a plant was grown, a pod was cracked
the sun was warm, the soil was sweet
we raised our hands to heaven's face

so God gave us the blessing bean
benediction for our striving
true, some might drink somewhat deeply
enjoy the bean a bit too much...

here is the bean - it stirs the head
reminding us of simple fact
that we can dance with hands and feet
that hearts and minds need joy and space

so God gave us to drink caffeine
benediction for our striving
while some might drink somewhat steeply
the bulk of us are nowhere such...


II: Son, Mediator

here then is a drink
look in its brown depths
we see our faces in
sweetly black reflex
we sip the bitter
scent the dying pain
learn that the fitter
lives to fight again

here then is mystery
shallower than Christ
a smaller history
nothing sacrificed
and yet daily ritual
perhaps we should think
why sacrificial
servanthood needs drink


III: Ghost, Inspirer

wine was the drink chosen
not coffee
in the earliest legends
wine was free
fire, burning, knowledge
Spirit, wind
wine was like purity
reminding
we who sinned

Spirit came at pentecost
flame tongues rose
build tower, count the cost
wise man knows
Spirit's burning, needs God
turns through pain
agony of evil
comes to God
once again


Coda

and coffee?
a minor grace
sent to remind
God still shows
His gracious face
to men still blind...
though coffee
is not wine

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