An Image

Created in Our image

     yet incomplete by design,

     unfulfilled in monadic self

     in need of suitable help;

this being my story

     do I get to choose which part

     is His mirror?

Intelligence safely ruled out

     to ponder conscience,

     or consciousness

     perplexes-

the resonant need for connection,

     with God, with creation,

     with humanity

     (having a sexual identity that is good).

This being my story,

     fallible and failing

     striving and succeeding

     real and imperfect;

a sculpture capable of pointing

     awe-inspired

     to the Sculptor.