Saturday, March 23, 2024

It is finished

It is finished.



Finished?


Is it?


I don't think so,


Not until the funny little woman on the Friday bus
Means more to me than I do to myself

Not until I read aright the message in your pain filled eyes

That I must take the ones you loved and left behind

To live with me as my responsibility

Not until I freely place my stock of cherished certainties

Like sad surrended weapons at your injured feet

Not until the public and the private faces 
Of my troubled Christianity

Can meet, and know they recognized each other when they met

Not until I know the names of more than half the people in my street


Finished?

No, I don't think so. 
Not yet.




By Adrian Plass

(Sourced from here)