Friday, October 18, 2024

rising again april 4,2014

I wake to cloudy skies

 that have not yet turned to rain

feeling her tears when finally

they pop up on my windshield

 her inability to hold them back

and once let loose impossible to stop

 I am reluctant to initiate the wiper

not wanting to wash them away

 she back from where she was

 like Lazarus and I wonder

 who the Christ was who

 brought this about

and why this God did not finish

what he started curing only the symptoms

 but not the disease

leaving her to seek strength

to compete The cure herself

is she strong enough

 after so many times being kicked down the stairs

can she rise without the help of Simon's

 bearing if only briefly the cross he is condemned to carry

after all this time

 after so many struggles

 you think she would still stagger

(ie what doesn't kill you…)

 and yet she has not

 still as vulnerable as a kid

and as appealing

as if we need to save her

 even when that is the last thing she wants from us


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