up here (Matthew 17:1-9)

         if
it was up
to us
      we would

metamorphose
         you
   into a
   cockroach, so
      you could be
      the star
   in the traveling
   flea circus;

download
         you
   onto that
   flashdrive
      that fits so
      comfortably
   in the bottom
   of the drawer and
         never sees
      the light of
            day;

transpose
         you
   into a minor
      key
   praise song, so
      we can complain,
   'why would anyone
         want to sing
         that
      tune;'

but
   into the
         Beloved,
      the one to
         Whom
   we need to
      listen?

not on our
         mountaintop!

(c) 2014 Thom M. Shuman