First Sunday of the Passion--Passion Sunday

First Sunday of the Passion—Passion Sunday

To sit down after a hard day’s night
thirty years on the circuit
washed up
Jesus
hung up there
too far from fifty to last it out
stoned.

Just to be able to sit down
kick off the shoes
feet sweating on a cool floor
free
to be able to walk on the earth
let the sand run between your toes
to touch Abraham in the open fields
leave your footprints in the promised land.