Hologram

Memory is a gift God gave us, far
better than offspring, sacrificial flesh.

This was a new, advanced way of giving,
since it was part of Herself,
how She knows, and the parcel of it

we each get allows us to be, like Her,
wherever and whenever we once were.

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A hologram is a laser-generated 3D image which, if broken up, preserves the full image in each of its pieces.

Along with “Time Is“, this is among the few religious poems I’ve written, though far from conventional in its view of deity.