The World's Jigsaw
Did God create the world
a jigsaw?
to be carefully fit together,
at times dismantled
and re-struck,
but with patience
and persistence
to be completed.
If so, then
the paucity of process
is rather exposed
as your son
seems to have been
wrongly placed,
wrongly timed.
Ripped from the board
and trimmed
so he would fit.
In all this
I feel my own picture postcard
no longer resembles
who I am
what I wanted to be
or how I thought I would be cast.
This jigsaw,
Jesus, me, the world,
Seems like no easy game.
And doesn't seem to fit.
I am prepared to believe
that, maybe,
it all makes sense
but, today at least, and often
I don't see the picture
