Transformers

This morning we worshiped in our church which has been transformed into an art exhibit (Icons in Transformation).  As a family we arrived late and sat in three separate pews, one in front of the other, in the back of the church, because there was a sculpture filling the middle section of the three pews.  I am 58.  Transformation at 58 has so many more pieces to work with.  I am still not sure how the component parts   will be put together.  I may have to wait a long while for the final gold leaf.  All icons have a wash of gold.

Years ago

Transformers were

The go-to toy.

They only morphed

Into particular set forms.

For a long while

Transformers

Were the toy of the year.

No longer.

Now it seems transformation

Goes well beyond

Anything we can ask

Or imagine

Even anything that bears resemblance

To a toy

Of any description.

Transformers at age 58

Take every possible component part

Twist and turn it

So it lines up

Yet also forms

A completely different creature

Unimagined until now

Yet still somehow

The same.

Then

Only then

It is touched up

With gold leaf

So it catches the Light

Just so