Spiritual Technology

In a box, stored away,
Is the three page
Loan doc my folks
Signed decades back to
Buy one of their first
Apartment buildings.

I’d guess that maybe
They’d have had
To supply the lender
Triple or quadruple 
That number of pages
When applying for the loan.

Last time I re-financed
A property, I guesstimate
That I had to supply,
Digitally, over
A thousand pages.
The lender kept asking.

I have the technology 
Of the day to supply
The information, although
I assume that no one
Actually read all those pages.
The check list was checked off.

Is all this technology to
Hinder or to aid? I don’t know.
Maybe not, maybe so.
An algorithm likely explored
All the pages, to assure the 
Lender the loan was safe.

Technology, I’m told, 
Is to make our lives
Simpler, safer, easier
To get it all done.
It feels not so, although
I think it is so.

So, on reflection, perhaps
We might consider
Technology a sort of 
Evolving lifeline, the 
Natural consequences of a
Needy, pitiful humanity,

Trying to clean up 
The cracks in the world
That existed from the
Moment of creation
When the vessels of creation
Shattered.

And the Infinite One then
Each moment to each moment
By virtue of Divine Will
Wills the cosmos into
Continued being.
Whether we know it or not.

Maybe the Infinite One
Inspires some who have gone afore
To construct for pitiful humanity
A sort of
Spiritual technology
To poorly mirror

The Infinite One’s
Moment to Divine moment,
That Will that maintains
The cosmos.  When I
Wrap tefillin in the morning
Is it a sort of ancient 

Cel-phone?
Although the call usually
Feel one way.
But I’ll stay wrapped up
For the duration.
Waiting for the Divine
To pick up the line.

Or maybe I’ll just need 
To leave 
A voicemail.

May 8, 2025
10th Iyyar