Saturday, September 14, 2024

We Don't Understand, But We Hope - poem

  

Lawrence Hall, HSG

Mhall46184@aol.com

 

We Don’t Understand, But We Hope

 

We don’t understand it, but we hope in it

The change from that which is to that which isn’t

Or is the change back again and no change at all

Which maybe means the blood and pain remain

 

We recline in a rented banquet room

We follow in fear along a narrow street

We watch in horror upon a death-haunted hill

We are called to an empty tomb which isn’t empty

 

We are called to a dented Cup which also isn’t empty

(Maybe $200 at the church supply store)

Cradling a Mystery from before time

A plate of bread that looks like bread but isn’t

 

The Altar is where the arc of history bends

 

Mystery

 

Who among the servers did the dishes

And did she accidentally drop a Cup?

 

(That part’s not important)

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