Wednesday, March 14, 2012

How Does a Mother Do That?


Mary, the Throne of God, stands, 
holding the Jesus babe
seeming 
to thrust him forward
into his future

Perfectly aligned
in front of the pair of them –
the crucifix
the cross from which Jesus hangs
in perpetuity

How does a mother
thrust her son
into a future of certain
and painful
excruciating
death?

But isn’t that the lot
of all of us?
Mothers
pushing their children
into the future
ejecting them
into a rejecting
world?

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