Jay Frankston- Two Poems

               THE WORD "GOD"

If you say the word "GOD"

not "use" it, just "say" it

without attaching a definition

without searching for a meaning,

If you say the word "GOD"

without a prayer or a supplication at the end

without a visual or imaginary being in your mind

If you say the word "GOD" under your breath,

in a whisper or in a scream of hopelessness and despair,

if you say it often enough this word "GOD"

so full of all there is, so rich in time and space

so infinite and eternal,

If you say it often enough

"GOD"  "GOD"  "GOD"

say it, count it, till you stop counting

not with conviction, not with faith or belief,

just the word "GOD" repeated

over and over again

for an uninterrupted period of time,

the word will not enter through your brain

and seek to define itself

it will enter through your heart.

Just say the word "GOD"

"GOD"  "GOD"  "GOD"

the feeling will penetrate your soul

and the word will open up,

you will be filled with the light of the word

and GOD will be with you for an instant.

                          

                    THE WORD

HE wrote a word on a sheet of paper,

a word that shook and trembled and spoke.

He looked at it and didn't know

how or why or where it came from.

He read it and reread it

though it was but one word

yet it filled him with light

and bliss and joy.

He sat on the grass under a tree

the notepad in his hand

but no other word

would come from his pen

yet his eyes shone like a light

and there was like a halo over his head.

I looked over his shoulder

and the word on his pad

was "God".