Restore

Shakira:
Diet and Exercise

Restore
the Garden
庭を復元する
Niwa o fukugen suru
ps 80

The garden has been destroyed.
Re-construction must be employed.

Let the light from the sun shine.
Let the rain provide for that which is mine.

Beauty will be restored with cultivation mined.
The destruction was motivation's fine.

Knowledge about the garden
was taken from anguish so the heart would not harden.

The land had been prepared for growth
with the use of what was known.

Fertility nurtures her success.
The heavens declare warmth with wetness;
The heat of light is relieved with darkness.
Enslavement was cast out as a test.
War is next.

One day tells its tale to another.
Each night imparts knowledge to uncover.
I like the dark. I'm a poetry lover.
Dreams dance for the conscience to discover.
I dread the extent of improbability, 
but there are problems with the liability 
of empirically tried hostility.
There is also the issue of deficient utility.

I surrender to the truth of the dream's dance
despite the lance of cruelty's stance.
Re-construction is a game of chance.
The time has come to mention France.

It has acquired a timeless quality with respect for law.
The Roman republic had been destroyed by attack from Gaul. (390 BCE)
It was a lesson learned by those who saw.
Now France promotes the rule of law for all.

Time has no language or words with which to speak,
but the message is a unique critique of the mystique of the bleak
that we tweak for the meek. The source has gone out to the earth we seek
to fertilize with knowledge from the Ancient Greek.
The sound of music as drawn from myth
harvests the grain by the scythe of pith.
This sound has gone out to all forthwith
to celebrate the sun as a monolith.

A pavilion has been set for the sun in the deep.
Illumination rises to run a course for time to keep.
Light comes forth like a celebrity on the stage to reap
the reward of praise from the fans that weep.

The stage is set for the course to run
from the outer edge to the end of fun.
Nothing but darkness is hidden from the radiance won.
The stream of sampling gets things done.

The rule of law requires respect for rights.
No one is above the law of light.
Judgment is for liberty with judicial sight
based on reason without discrimination's blight.

Justice revives the soul.
It gives wisdom to those who know
that it is needed as a goal.
It is there when we are ready to go.

Do not harbor false belief.
Truth will give you what you seek.
Do not abuse authority for power to speak.
Leave time to rest to rebuild the strength you need.

Honor your family for length of life.
Do not murder or contribute to strife.
Do not destroy property or your relations might.
Do not steal or bear false witness for your delight.

Do not covet property.
You desire only the novelty.
It creates social impropriety.
It reduces the quality of sobriety.
Do not support sacrifice for invasion or genocide.
It is a larger case of homicide.
It increases liability beyond the size of your stride.
It is a burden cursed by the monstrous size of the lies
by which it tries to hide those who have died. 

Set aside a portion of your income when you are beyond poverty.
The partisan polity provides mockery to defend the robbery of your property.
The poor, the disabled and the elderly provide a priority
to remind us that we are not just a majority or a minority.
Authority is properly directed toward equitable reward, not to inequality.
Spending appropriated for social security
restrains waste on the inclination to violent immaturity.

Spending on the military and supporting technology 
has to be limited to defense for the surety of maturity.
Put your faith in action to show love for others.
Earn respect by honoring rights for sisters and mothers.
Direct yourself away from causing damage to avoid crime with any color.
Love your enemy. It will cover your numbers. You won't be smothered.

Hate violence and deception without brutality or contrivance.
Crisis is managed with calm conception and non-violence.
Re-direct anger from hostility to the tireless spiraling of silence.
Use quietness to produce viable speech or action rather than idleness.

The rule of law is just when it is justly applied.
It gives joy to the heart and insight to the mind.
It makes the vine take root to produce grapes for wine.
It makes the grain that is used for bread that's fine.

Restore the garden.

Love will grow in the bargain.

Psalm 80
Qui regis Israel

1 Hear, O Shepherd of Israel, leading Joseph like a flock; *
shine forth, you that are enthroned upon the cherubim.
2 In the presence of Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, *
stir up your strength and come to help us.
3 Restore us, O God of hosts; *
show the light of your countenance, and we shall be saved.
4 O Lord God of hosts, *
how long will you be angered
despite the prayers of your people?
5 You have fed them with the bread of tears; *
you have given them bowls of tears to drink.
6 You have made us the derision of our neighbors, *
and our enemies laugh us to scorn.
7 Restore us, O God of hosts; *
show the light of your countenance, and we shall be saved.
8 You have brought a vine out of Egypt; *
you cast out the nations and planted it.
9 You prepared the ground for it; *
it took root and filled the land.
10 The mountains were covered by its shadow *
and the towering cedar trees by its boughs.
11 You stretched out its tendrils to the Sea *
and its branches to the River.
12 Why have you broken down its wall, *
so that all who pass by pluck off its grapes?
13 The wild boar of the forest has ravaged it, *
and the beasts of the field have grazed upon it.
14 Turn now, O God of hosts, look down from heaven;
behold and tend this vine; *
preserve what your right hand has planted.
15 They burn it with fire like rubbish; *
at the rebuke of your countenance let them perish.
16 Let your hand be upon the man of your right hand, *
the son of man you have made so strong for yourself.
17 And so will we never turn away from you; *
give us life, that we may call upon your Name.
18 Restore us, O Lord God of hosts; *
show the light of your countenance, and we shall be saved.