Tuesday, February 14, 2012

until (Mark 9:2-9)

until 
we see the faces 
of those tossed into
the world's garbage piles
dazzling bright with 
hope and wholeness;

until
we respect the prophets
we have been yearning for
in the hip-hopped, doo-ragged
teenagers strutting 
through the malls;

until 
we hear God's sweet
songs of peace and reconciliation 
in the mother tongues
of all we turn
a deaf ear to;

until 
we catch a glimpse 
of you (out of the corner 
of our shut-tight eyes) 
coming down off 
the shelf where we store you, 
to enter our frayed lives;

maybe 
we should have nothing to say . . .
      
until.

(c) Thom M. Shuman

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