Willpower

Willpower is God asking, "Will you give up your power?" - Josh C.

We gathered, some eagerly,
some going through the motions,
doing the work despite emotions
pulling elsewhere.

We assembled, reading words
familiar, comforting, habitual
sliding over the words, yet hearing
pointed phrases.

We recalled love-deprived cribs,
house-to-house grazing,
angry sons, serial drive-throughs,
one story shared.

We spoke of powerlessness, insanity,
debacles of willing normality.
We lamented teeth-gritted willpower
crashing, shattered again.

We delighted in solutions realized
looking up from deep pits
to a presence always part of us,
who will when we can't.