Spirits Are Intangible

Communing with the living dead

perhaps shows us what lies ahead,

and yet, after all, maybe not;

spirits did know but they forgot.

An unwritten natural law

makes spiritual action a flaw.

They’re not allowed to intervene

by revealing what they have seen.

But they are allowed to confide

the things they said before they died.

We can talk with the spirits now,

which natural laws will allow.

They can’t act to change anything;

even what they’re remembering.

Walt Abbott–9-4-2009