Arlene Corwin writes

 Two Looks At The First Reality 

 (or What or Who creates it all)

Depending on one’s leanings,

And assuming one is interested,

I, myself am all-enthralled 

By themes self-vested in.

One view is that Reality, the Primary

Is really One, without a sun - just one Entirety.

The second is the same Supreme

With arms, legs, body, plus an aim;

One which we address by name.

Who often spotlights sin and blame

But calls on us to love our neighbour -

Finely tuned through daily labor.

I find I prefer the former:

One which says that causes good in motive, act

Result in good-ness as a fact;

And causes whose intents are wrong

Though mind is rational and sharp 

Will end in ends that taint and warp. 

Each theory is complementary.

Depending on how you are born

(with preferences pre-natally ‘learned’)

You can arrive one early morn

At one with It-The-Energy,

Free from all impurity.

These little stanzas simplify

A lifelong try

At transformation.

Drawing on our screwed-up best

At wrestling with the gifts and mess 

We’re born to guest.