Sunday, December 13, 2020

Waiting for the Messiah Someplace Else - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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Waiting for the Messiah Someplace Else

 

MotelRabbiwe've been waiting for the Messiah all our lives. Wouldn't now be a good time for him to come?

 

Rabbi: I guess we'll have to wait someplace else.

 

-Fiddler on the Roof

 

And so we wait, here where we are, the time

Marked off by calends and by candlelight

Four Gospels in a ring of holy fire

Before the Altar, and before the Throne

 

The Magi journey through space and time

Our journey is in waiting for a star

To shine upon us all, and lead us to

The Temple where all waiting finally ends

 

Beside an Altar of repose in a Stable

A cradle of wood from Eden and the Ark

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