punctual attendance at Meeting for Business is important
as worship
for to love is finding work also
there unmasked, when failing
a shining model of uprightness
and moderation
this purposing of expectation
coming to befriend each other
in daily labor and dreaming
vigilant close labor with any who slight
the holy standard
purposing
a forgiving spirit cherished by the whole
to resume anew
aggregating strength
for individual tribulations
where you’d otherwise succumb
* * *
the old pendulum, tick-tock
causing more than one who attends
to sit on the far side of the unadorned room
and that’s their business
Poem copyright 2016 by Jnana Hodson
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