Resurrections

Why Gather?

Why gather
for this Festival of
Pasch?
Why come into
this time of Passing,
over?

What is the meaning
of these Holy Days,
this Festival which now
we enter on?

‘Give me your hand’
to wipe a tear,
to make a cup of tea:
Do not be unbelieving but believe
that I am here,
before you and within;-

Abba, a chink
is all you get,- for now:
but chink enough for you
where light and heat steal in
to meet my cold,

Them bones, Them bones-
are some good bones
for living to the full;

Head bone for thinking well
on all that is

Does a fish earn the sea
or I the air I breathe,
that I or we should strive
for our salvation?

ABBA now,
at last,-
Abba always in my past
but now allowed
within:

All flesh has become
Word
of Risen Lord within
among his people,
earth.